War and peace.
Click to viewFriends, a little gift for my "fans" forioscribe and seraphimsigrist who thought of me in the past days. And speaking (or hearing?) about the time I remember Ecclesiastes 3:
There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven:
A time to give birth and a time to die;
A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted
A time to kill and a time to heal;
A time to tear down and a time to build up.
A time to weep and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn and a time to dance. A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones;
A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing.
A time to search and a time to give up as lost;
A time to keep and a time to throw away.
A time to tear apart and a time to sew together;
A time to be silent and a time to speak.
A time to love and a time to hate;
A time for war and a time for peace.
(Picasso - War and Peace)
Time for peace and time for war, that also remembers me an article of Sir A. Conan Doyle from the front, recruiting speech:
There was a time for all things in the world. There was a time for games, there was a time for business, there was a time for domestic life. There was a time for everything, but there is only time for one thing now, and that thing is war. If the cricketer had a straight eye let him look along the barrel of a rifle. If a footballer had strength of limb let them serve and march in the field of battle.
The peace is only a parenthesis between two wars, a war that continues under mutated forms. I always hoped inner peace, in time of war or not your (my) deep soul needs peace more than the world around. What does give me the peace? Listening to the musical file I shared here is a way, looking for an image, praying with God, playing my piano looking for the eyes of the people I meet along the paths of my life are other ways... The Lord himself will fight for you; you have only to keep still and peace.
Thank you Lord for all the things...