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please visit us at the Villagechurch.net. Oh, Good morning church family. My name is Carla Hickman and I am privileged to serve on staff with the

kids department as well as serve in our student ministry as a volunteer welcoming in new students. Today I will read Ecclesiastics 3 1 through 14. 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 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 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 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

What gain has the worker from his toil?

I have seen the business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.

He has made everything beautiful in its time.

Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find

out what God has done from the beginning to the end. I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live.

Also, that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil.

This is God's gift to man.

I perceived that whatever God does endures forever.

Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it.

God has done it so that people fear before him. This is the word of the Lord.

Thanks to be to God.

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