Everything is Beautiful

I think in song. Almost everything reminds me of a song, which I will break out into more often than not. So when I first read Ecclesiastes 3:11, "He has made everything beautiful in it's time...", I immediately thought of the Ray Stevens song Everything is Beautiful. The versions I've heard do not contain the first verse, so I was not aware until I looked it up that it also contained the song Jesus Loves The Little Children. I have included the lyrics below:

Jesus loves the little children,
All the little children of the world.
Red and yellow, black and white,
They are precious in his sight.
Jesus loves the little children of the world.

Everything is beautiful in its own way.
Like the starry summer night, or a snow-covered winter's day.
And everybody's beautiful in their own way.
Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find a way.

There is none so blind as he who will not see.
We must not close our minds; we must let our thoughts be free.
For every hour that passes by, we know the world gets a little bit older.
It's time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

And everything is beautiful in its own way.
Like the starry summer night, or a snow-covered winter's day.
Oh, sing it children!
Everybody's beautiful in their own way.
Under God's heaven, the world's gonna find a way.

We shouldn't care about the length of his hair, or the color of his skin.
Don't worry about what shows from without, but the love that lives within.
And we're gonna get it all together now; everything gonna work out fine.
Just take a little time to look on the good side my friend
And straighten it out in your mind.

And everything is beautiful in its own way.
Like the starry summer night, or a snow-covered winter's day.
Ah, sing it children!
Everybody's beautiful in their own way,
Under God's heaven the world's gonna find a way.
One more time!
Everything is beautiful in its own way.
Like the starry summer night, or a snow-covered winter's day...

I found it somewhat amusing that the misty optimism of the rest of the song is in such direct contrast to the rest of the book of Ecclesiastes.

"And we're gonna get it all together now; everything gonna work out fine.
Just take a little time to look on the good side my friend
And straighten it out in your mind."
Qoheleth never seems to "look on the good side", rather he focuses on the meaninglessness of everything on the earth, as he states in the second verse of Ecclesiastes.
Still, considering one would certainly not make any connection with this song and the book of Ecclesiastes, I'm glad that my mind allowed me to make such a seemingly random connection, if for no other purpose than to be able to fill the requirements of this assignment.
God HAS made everything beautiful!