Ecclesiastes 5:16-18

Written By David Griffiths
 
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"This too is a very serious problem: People leave the world no better off than when they came. All their hard work is for nothing--like working for the wind! Throughout their lives, they live under a cloud--frustrated, discouraged, and angry.
Even so, I have noticed one thing, at least, that is good: it is good for people to eat, drink, and enjoy their work under the sun during the short life God has given them, and to accept their lot in life."

-Ecclesiastes 5:16-18


Happy Thanksgiving, dear ones. I am so very thankful for you!
May you have a nice couple of days here, eating and drinking and reconnecting with what is good, with joy.

Unrelated Extra Links:
For those hanging with The Conversation (our book club;), our next book in Lewis's space trilogy is Perelandra. Here is a fantastic conversation by three Lewis-scholars/fanboys that revolves around Lewis's imagination, Narnia, and the space trilogy. I really enjoyed it! Podcast: The Narnian / Alan Jacobs, Douglas Wilson, N.D. Wilson
And while there're things in this article that aren't fantastic, I love the idea of our older-cohort modeling curiosity: Youth Spies and Curious Elders. I sometimes wonder whether curiosity isn't the unsung trait beneath many of the other virtues, like patience, mercy, faithfulness--curiosity is the posture towards life that says, There's something more here than I know, and I'd like to see it. As the article says, "revel in your mystification"; and doesn't that sound a lot like humility? Being humble toward life, because we are fundamentally humble before our mysterious and marvelous Lord?

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