To Everything a Season

(From “Of Time and Passing”)

Daniel Knaggs (b. 1983)

To everything there is a season

A time for every purpose under heaven:

Time to be born,

a time to die;

A time to plant,

a time to pluck up;

A time to kill,

a time to heal;

Time to break down,

a time to build;

A time to weep,

a time to laugh;

A time to mourn,

a time to dance;

A time to cast away stones,

a time to gather stones;

Time to embrace,

time to refrain;

A time to seek,

a time to lose;

A time to keep,

a time to cast away; A time to rend,

a time to sew;

A time for silence,

a time to speak;

A time to love,

a time to hate;

A time for war,

a time for peace

— Ecclesiastes 3

“To Everything A Season” was performed by the Houston Chamber Choir at their 2019-2020 season’s “By Local.”