To Everything There Is A Season ....

...and a time to every purpose under heaven. Ecc. 3:1

The girls and I read "Turn! Turn! Turn!" last week .... you know, the 60's song written by Pete Seeger and performed by the Byrds. Now the words to the song are illustrated in a children's book. It comes with a CD containing the Byrds version and an acoustic version by Seeger.

I've always liked the song, and knew the chorus was taken straight from the KJV Bible, but I guess I never really listened to the whole thing, because I was surprised to learn that practically the entire song is taken from Scripture. With the exception of the recurring phrase "turn, turn, turn" and then at the end of the song, the words "I swear it's not too late", the song is pretty much Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 set to music.

The book is lavishly illustrated, which seems to be a theme for favorite books of mine lately. On every page, the pictures are drawn in sections of a circle. The opposite halves of the circle reflect the opposing themes in the passage, e.g. "a time to laugh, a time to weep", with the illustrations forming a montage of people laughing on one page, and weeping on the next. We looked through the book several times and each time found something we hadn't seen before.

A book that quotes several verses of Scripture, is beautifully illustrated, and is accompanied by music which satisfies my inner hippie...... I really don't think I could ask for anything more :)