"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven."
Ecclesiastes 3:1, King James Version
I know two things as a fact today: one, the days of loneliness in my life are over; two, those days of loneliness will return someday, when life once again draws full circle. Not that life is merely a repetition of yesterday, no. You see, what happened yesterday will happen again and will happen tomorrow, true, but the people who were, are and will be involved are unique. Some will be heroes. Others will be mere scum.
The question is, as winter comes to a close, will I act nobly, or otherwise? Well, for one thing, to not appreciate springtime is to throw away every tear you've shed in waiting for it all throughout winter. On the other hand, to indulge in it is to forget that not too far away another winter waits to smile its hideous grin against you.
I thank God He sent His Son and invented Christmas--it made cruel winter a wonderland. Somehow. I think.
Get to the point! Well, the point is, I have to be careful in enjoying myself in summer's embrace, lest I forget that just barely a few weeks ago I was at the edge of my reason because of the pain at the primacy of loneliness over delight.
It's funny how one needed a reason to be happy, whilst melancholy can easily stand on its own.
But come to think of it, technology has not only made winter bearable, but made it fit into our puny little human hands. Maybe because we were in God's image and His dominion over all things is very much reflected in those who resemble Him most.
Dominion it is. Springtime and Summer were made to help us conquer the coldness of Winter. It is, as with the fable of the ant and the grasshopper, and the power of grace and wisdom kept in the heart of man, like a nuclear reactor, brimming with heat, with strength, with constancy.
Well, it seems I have work to do.
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