June 5

Seasons
Bible in a Year:
2 Chronicles 23–24
John 15
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.

Today's Scripture & Insight:

Ecclesiastes 3:1–14
I recently came across a helpful word: wintering. Just as winter is a time of slowing down in much of the natural world, author Katherine May uses this word to describe our need to rest and recuperate during life’s “cold” seasons. I found the analogy helpful after losing my father to cancer, which sapped me of energy for months. Resentful of this forced slowing down, I fought against my winter, praying summer’s life would return. But I had much to learn.

Ecclesiastes famously says there’s “a season for every activity under the heavens”—a time to plant and to harvest, to weep and to laugh, to mourn and to dance (3:1–4). I had read these words for years but only started to understand them in my wintering season. For though we have little control over them, each season is finite and will pass when its work is done. And while we can’t always fathom what it is, God is doing something significant in us through them (v. 11). My time of mourning wasn’t over. When it was, dancing would return. Just as plants and animals don’t fight winter, I needed to rest and let it do its renewing work.

“Lord,” a friend prayed, “would You do Your good work in Sheridan during this difficult season.” It was a better prayer than mine. For in God’s hands, seasons are purposeful things. Let’s submit to His renewing work in each one.

By: Sheridan Voysey

Father God, thank You for using every season for Your glory and my good. Amen.

California lawmakers to honor controversial Trans-Nuns group amidst criticism
https://www.oann.com/video/oan-contribution/california-lawmakers-to-honor-controversial-trans-nuns-group-amidst-criticism/
California lawmakers are preparing to honor a member of the trans-nuns group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, which has been at the center of controversy following an incident involving the Los Angeles Dodgers. The group has been criticized for its anti-Catholic views and for mocking Christian beliefs, such as giving Jesus a pole dance on the cross, with a motto that reads “go and sin some more.” Nonetheless, the California State Legislature’s LGBTQ Caucus has announced plans to honor one of the group’s members. Mark Trammell, Executive Director of the Center for American Liberty joins OAN’s Alicia Summers to discuss.

Watch: Climate Change Protesters Try to Crash Swedish Dance Show — Camera Man Nails Them With Crane! https://www.infowars.com/posts/watch-climate-change-protesters-try-to-crash-swedish-dance-show-camera-man-nails-them-with-crane/

Alvin Bragg(D) Will Charge the White Guy Who Held Down the Mostly Peaceful Dance Artiste
(But, Get This -- Not the Two Black Guys Who Also Held Him Down) - Ace

Antiwar activist Jose Vega is well on his way to becoming a legendary disruptor of the war machine. His latest target: an event at Columbia Journalism School featuring some of the news media’s top editors talking about anything BUT the Nord Stream pipeline bombing and the ongoing perilous dance with World War III.
Guest host Aaron Maté and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger talk to special guest Jimmy Dore about the sad state of journalism in America and why disruptors like Vega are so important to holding the powerful accountable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Upux1XBCbg