{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/656fd0cb4030a60011809ebf/67fa91fdd67315f9f44efa89?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Eternal Now","description":"<h2>Scripture&nbsp;&nbsp;</h2><p><strong>Ecclesiastes 3:1–8, 11 (NRSV)</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>For everything there is a season,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>and a time for every matter under heaven:&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>a time to be born, and a time to die;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>a time to kill, and a time to heal;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>a time to break down, and a time to build up;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>a time to weep, and a time to laugh;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>a time to mourn, and a time to dance;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>a time to seek, and a time to lose;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>a time to keep, and a time to throw away;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>a time to tear, and a time to sew;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>a time to love, and a time to hate;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>a time for war, and a time for peace.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>He has made everything suitable for its time.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Moreover, He has put a sense of eternity into their minds,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>yet they cannot find out what God has done from beginning to end.</p><p><br></p><h2>Refrain&nbsp;&nbsp;</h2><p>I am not lost in time,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>I am held in the eternal now.</p><p><br></p><h2>Poem&nbsp;&nbsp;</h2><p><strong>Rainer Maria Rilke</strong>, from *Letters to a Young Poet*&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>and try to love the questions themselves,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Do not now seek the answers,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>which cannot be given you&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>because you would not be able to live them.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>And the point is, to live everything.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Live the questions now.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>live along some distant day into the answer.</p>","author_name":"City Arts Dept"}