Faithful in This Season: What This Changes Between Us

The greeting line after the last song is where two clocks start arguing. Someone is holding a newborn against a shoulder. Three people later, someone is holding a folded paper they have not named yet. Both of them said God is good in the same hallway. Both of them meant it. They are not living the same hour.

This is a sermon for a church that already knows the poem and still treats one person's hour as the official calendar the rest of the body has to live under. If you preach Ecclesiastes 3 as a map of anyone's private anxiety, you will lie. If you preach it as a technique that makes the week applaud the congregation, you will lie in a different direction. Preach it as wisdom for people who have to sit next to each other while their hours do not match.

I have quoted verse 1 over a room and still walked the greeting line as if one season were the only season that counted.

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