To Everything There Is a Season

answered by Ecclesiastes 3:1

기원전 3세기경(지혜문학)

🎬 TODAY'S FILM — IT ASKS THIS

Waterloo Bridge (1940)

dir. Mervyn LeRoy · USA

The vast whirlwind of war shakes a love two people have only just begun. When a love of brief, passing moments is swallowed by time and tragedy, it asks whether that lost time was in vain, or complete in its own way.

THE QUESTION THE FILM ASKS

When a vast time like war takes away one person's brief love, does that lost moment become meaningless?

📜 THE CLASSIC'S ANSWER

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.

💡 TL;DR

The Preacher said to everything there is a season.

📝The Classic Answers

The Preacher said to everything there is a season. I do not read this as a resignation to leave all to fate. That there is a time to meet and a time to part, a time to bloom and a time to fade, is a comfort: even what passed briefly had its own complete season. The love of a single day that war took away was whole in that moment, and its passing does not unmake it. Rather than counting the lost only as a failure to hold on, I choose to remember it was a complete moment that fulfilled its season.

— ONGO · Curator

🌱Apply It Today

Recall one relationship or season already gone that you miss, and rename it — not 'a failure because it ended,' but 'a whole time that fulfilled its season.'

📖 Classic Source: Ecclesiastes 3:1. Ancient text in the public domain; rendered and interpreted independently by ONGO.
The film is honored as an equal questioner; its plot is rendered only as a universal dilemma. The classic source is an ancient text (Public Domain), and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.