Hi, friends, and thanks for joining us for today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Our reading titled, Time Enough, was written by Cindy Hess Casper.

When I saw the massive volume of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace on my friend's bookshelf,

I confessed, I've never actually made it all the way through that.

Well, Marty chuckled, when I retired from teaching, I got it as a gift from a friend who told me,

now you'll finally have time to read it.

The first eight verses of Ecclesiastes three

state a familiar, natural rhythm

of the activities of life with some arbitrary choices.

No matter what stage of life we find ourselves in,

it's often difficult to find time to do everything we want to do.

And to make wise decisions about managing our time,

it's helpful to have a plan. Time spent with God each day is a priority for our spiritual

health. Doing productive work is satisfying to our spirit. Serving God and helping other people is essential to fulfilling God's

purpose for us, and times of rest or leisure aren't wasted, but refreshing for body and spirit.

Of course, it's easy to become too focused on the here and now, finding time for the things that matter

most to us.

But Ecclesiastes 311 says that God has set eternity in our hearts, reminding us to make

a priority of the things that are eternal.

That can bring us face to face with something of the greatest importance, God's eternal perspective from beginning to end.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Ecclesiastes chapter 3 verses 1 through 13.

There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens,

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