Friday 5 June 2009

A Time for Everything

There is a time for everything, a season for every activity under heaven.

A time to be born and a time to die.
A time to plant and a time to harvest.

A time to kill and a time to heal.
A time to tear down and a time to rebuild.

A time to cry and a time to laugh.
A time to grieve and a time to dance.

A time to scatter stones and a time to gather stones.
At ime to embrace and a time to turn away.

A time to search and a time to lose.
A time to keep and a time to throw away.

A time to tear and a time to mend.
A time to be quiet and a time to speak up.

A time to love and a time to hate.
A time for war and a time for peace.


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P/S This is not an original piece. Who can guess where this is from? Don't cheat, no Googling.

6 comments:

May said...

!!!!!

That last verse! It was my topic for the impromptu part of the Public Speaking Competition last year!!!!!

What is this? Hmm.

May said...

Okay actually they combined the 1st part of the 2nd verse with the 2nd part of the last verse. Still.

Absurd topic. XD

trustjenglot said...

LOL, i assume you know where these verses are from.

May said...

Actually I don't.

I thought it was just some random thing they threw together just to stump us and I never bothered to find out where it came from.

Because it's a really random topic.

A time to kill and a time to heal,
A time for war and a time for peace.

(Excuse me, what on earth...?!)

trustjenglot said...

haha... it's from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

May said...

They took a public speaking topic from the BIBLE?

Cool.

Better start revising my OT. XD