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All right, welcome back. This week on The Daily Blade, we are focusing on Ecclesiastes 3

versus 1 through 8. I'll read it again here. For everything, there is a season and a time for

every matter under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to pluck

up what is planted. A time to kill and a time to heal. A time to break 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 cast away stones and a time to gather stones together. A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing. A time to seek and a time to lose. A time to keep and a time to refrain from embracing a time to seek and a time to lose a time to keep

and a time to cast away a time to tear and a time to sew a time to keep silence and a time to speak

a time to love and a time to hate a time for war and a time for peace so specifically today we're keying in on the latter part of verse seven a time for war and a time for peace. So specifically today, we're keying in on the latter part of verse 7, a time to keep silence and a time to speak.

I mean, any of you guys have a problem minding your tongue?

No? Just me?

Yeah, okay.

I think that all of us fellows, if we're being're being honest right we'd say that we have a tendency

at least to either open our mouths when we shouldn't and to keep our mouths close when we shouldn't

now this could take the form of you know saying the ugly mean comment to our spouse because

we want to get a leg up in a fight or take a cheap shot or remaining silent

when we hear someone spreading falsehoods in public, right? Either way, it's as if we lack the

wisdom or the ability or the courage to do the right thing at the right time when it pertains to

what we say. Now, while writing this, I was reminded of her prayer that I used to say to

myself all the time. It's called the Serenity Prayer. So the extended original version was written by

Reinhold Niebuhr in the early 20th century, but it's just simple and, you know, kind of the

simplified version of it goes like this. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

courage to change the things I can,, courage to change the things I can,

and wisdom to know the difference. Now, it's pretty easy to see the three main points there,

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