Ecclesiastes For everything there is a season, and a time avery matter under heaven a time to be born, and a time to die a time to plant, and time to pluck up what is planted There are two wo things that strike me about this verse The first is the inevitability of a time to live and a time to die. It really drives home the point that you will die, as surely as you are now living. Your death is inevitable, is prearranged, is coming. Your date is set and your time is ticking down. You will die. The second is the idea of being planted and plucked. I think that is a very apt comparison. We a planted in this life. We weather the storms, we grow, we work towards sanctity, we develop. And then at the end of our lives, we are taken up, plucked from this earth and judged. Like a fruit, if we are fo