When You Can’t Rush the Season You’re In

The Best of You

Dr. Alison Cook

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.9 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Today's Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:1–11If you feel stuck in a season that won’t change, this episode offers a grounded, compassionate way to navigate uncertainty without forcing what isn’t ready. We explore:*Emotional stuckness and waiting*Anxiety about the future*Control vs. surrender*Finding peace in the uncertaintyEmail us at info@dralisoncook.com with topics or passages you'd like us to cover! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Allison. Today's scripture offers us a wiser way of being human as we step into the day.
0:12.1	Today's passage is one of my favorites in all of scripture. It's beautiful, familiar, poetic, but it's also one of the most honest passages about what it means to be human.
0:21.3	Because this scripture names something many of us feel, but don't always know how to articulate.
0:26.2	There are seasons in life we do not choose. Seasons we do not control. Seasons we cannot rush.
0:33.2	And if you're in one of those seasons right now, this passage has a lot to offer.
0:39.0	Today's scripture is Ecclesiastes 3, 1 through 11. There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the
0:46.8	heavens. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill, and a time to heal, a time to tear down,
0:59.0	and a time to build, a time to weep, and a time to laugh, a time to mourn, and a time to dance,
1:07.1	a time to scatterstones, and a time to gather them, a time to embrace, and a time to gather them a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing
1:15.1	a time to search and a time to give up a time to keep and a time to throw away a time to tear
1:24.5	and a time to mend a time to be silent and a time to speak a time to tear and a time to mend, 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.
1:39.3	What do workers gain from their toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He has made
1:45.8	everything beautiful in its time. He has also said eternity in the human heart, yet no one can fathom
1:51.8	what God has done from beginning to end. Ecclesiastes is one of the most psychologically
1:59.0	profound books in all of Scripture.
2:00.9	And this passage gets quoted often because it's so beautiful.
2:04.2	But when you slow down and really sit with it, it's also a little unsettling.
2:08.9	Because it's describing a reality we spend so much of our lives trying to resist.
2:13.2	There are seasons of our lives we do not control.
2:16.4	And for many of us, this is deeply uncomfortable.
2:19.6	Because so much of adulthood trains us to believe that if we work hard enough, plan carefully
2:23.7	enough, pray enough, heal enough, we should be able to move life along. We should be able to make
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