Time to remember

In his song Mighty Trucks of Midnight, Bruce Cockburn sings:

Everything that exists in time runs out of time someday

John Weaver, leading Council in our act of remembrance, reminded us that Qohelet puts it like this:

 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;
a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

The gospel message is that evil is constrained within time, and is therefore under judgment.

As we remember the evils of our past, present and future, the one who is beyond time calls us proclaim and participate in the inbreaking kingdom of heaven.