A Time for Everything

Builders, we appreciate your help in building Greenhouse through your prayers, gifts, and advocacy.

During the month of April, we invite you to pray for the art classes at Greenhouse as well as the art show coming up in May. Pray that students will grasp some of the beauty and creativity of the Lord through their art classes and projects. Pray that they will grow in their ability to observe and see, as well as in their artistic skillfulness. Pray for art teachers David LaPlaca (core) and Hal Metzger (electives) as they seek to encourage each student in creating their artwork.

Consider these words from Ecclesiastes 3.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 (NIV)

There is a time for everything,

and a season for every activity under the 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 and a time to build,

a time to weep and a time to laugh,

a time to mourn and a time to dance,

a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,

a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

a time to search and a time to give up,

a time to keep and a time to throw away,

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.

What do workers gain from their toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

Prayerfully ponder how you would characterize this period of your life. Is it a time of building, a time of weeping, a time of searching? If you see nothing beautiful in the midst of this season of life, ask the Lord to help you perceive the beauty that is there. Thank Him for His faithfulness, and trust that everything in His providence has its appointed season.