Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 / Luke 9:18-22
If we were asked to form a simple sentence with the word "time" in it, one of the easiest sentences could be : I have no time.
Maybe that is because we use it so often in our own busy lives.
Yes, we sigh and we lament that we are so busy and we don't have much time.
The 1st reading mentions the word "time" more than 28 times.
But its purpose is not to tell us whether we have time or not.
Rather all time is in God's hands and all He does is apt for its time.
Also, though God has permitted man to consider time in is wholeness, man cannot comprehend the work of God from beginning to end.
Nor could the disciples in the gospel passage comprehend fully who Jesus was, even though Peter seemed to get it correct, but it was just for that moment.
Indeed, there is a time for questions and a time for answers; a time for rejoicing and a time for suffering, a time for peace and a time for strife.
Yet, as the popular hymn goes : In His time. Yes, all happens in God's time. All that happens in our lives happen in God's time.
Having said all that, the reflection point is this : God will always have time for us ; do we have time for God?