One person's work is another person's play. So what is it that makes the difference? Is it OK to play at work? Can our work also be our play? Is play for children and work for adults? That's what Pastor Isaac was suggesting this past week in his sermon.
If you'd like to listen to the sermon, you can do so by clicking here.
As you reflect on the passage of scripture to the right, do you notice that play is not specifically listed? Why do you think that is? It is assumed or implied? Where does it fit into the reflections of life by Solomon?
Where does play fit for you? How do you feel about the idea of a playful and creative God? How do you feel about playful, creative, imaginative beings that are created in God's image?
We hope you have had an opportunity to reflect on his over the course of this series, and have caught a glimpse of what we often miss. We have reflected on a playful God . . . the playfulness that comes so naturally to children . . . and perhaps the playfulness that is intended to find expression in each of us, but which often gets lost as we get older.
We hope that somewhere in the process you have heard the invitation to go into the world and play!
Ecclesiastes 3: 1-13 (TNIV)
1 There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
9 What do workers gain from their toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. 11 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. 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil — this is the gift of God.