So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for people under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun. Ecclesiastes 8:15
If you ask a certain blogger’s father, “How many guitars do you need to be happy?” His answer is, “One more.” Such is life. We all work really hard to obtain ‘Just One More.’ But those earthly instruments will someday turn to dust and the man that drew music and joy from them will be pickin’ and grinnin’ in the Angel Band.
The writer of Ecclesiastes, a book of wisdom, is encouraging us to seek a life of joy found in our relationships, not our possessions. Seeking fame and fortune is vain. I won’t remember how many instruments dad collected, but I will remember our times together making music, refinishing furniture, roofing houses, talking theology and philosophy………it is the relationship that strengthened and empowered me to face life’s trials, not the things he owned.
God made us a social race. We need each other. He ordained the good things that life brings. Yes, we must work to sustain ourselves, but our jobs take us into relationships that give depth and color to our existence. We do not have to creep through days worrying there is a sin behind every blessing and the other shoe must fall. Hold close the people in your world and cherish the moments you have been given.
Makin’ Memories,
Gretchen