In season

Be constant in season and out of season. This was the counsel of Paul.

For everything there is a season. This was the counsel of Solomon.

Paul's advice has been taken to mean: be tough; stiff upper lip come what may; never let'em see your weak side.

Solomon's advice, on the other hand, can easily be taken this way: oh well, I'll do it tomorrow.

We probably all know people who exemplify one or the other of these exhortations. Just one: I'm not backin' down. Or the other: meh, maybe tomorrow.

Inevitably these lives are caricatures of what not to be.

Beauty must be somewhere in the middle. Or better: beauty must be exemplifying both such that the rule of neither is evident. It is very difficult to do.

In writing this post, I recalled a restaurant I knew in Philadelphia in the 1970's, called In Season. Googling it turned up nothing so it must be gone. But in its place I learned about The Little Fish Restaurant. It is obviously a quality place. Reservations are recommended. Here is what it says in its blurb (italics mine):

"Our constantly evolving menu features fresh, in season, seafood accompanied by fine local ingredients."

Current offerings include: Mahi Mahi, crab fregola, tomato vinaigrette, tiny arugala, or Suzuki, little neck clams, fingerling, merguez sausage, roasted pepper...

I have no idea what half these words mean (fregola, finglering, merguez).

But the point is clear: the menu changes in season. The quality is the same always.

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2 Timothy 4.2 ... be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

Ecclesiastes 3.1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven ...