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Ecclesiastes 4:4-6 4 And I saw that all labor and all achievement spring from man's envy of his neighbor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. 5 The fool folds his hands and ruins himself. 6 Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind. Its taken me now almost three weeks to write anything on this chapter in Ecclesiastes. I’ve been busy. With Lent going on and Easter now just over the horizon I have found less and less time to do things like visitation, and meditation. When I sat down this morning to look at one of the verses in chapter four that I had underlined I hit upon these verses. This is a great reminder in times of running around that sometimes we are better off stopping and making ourselves relax. It is difficult to do, and in fact sometimes it seems down right contradictory to getting more done. But it is a necessary part of our life. I think the Teacher in Ecclesiastes knew this well and maybe that wa

Ecclesiastes 3:11 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. This verse contains an important lesson for someone like me. I’m one of those individuals who need to plan things out. Even if I know the event won’t happen like that or that the plans will change I still need to plan things out. I long to have the answer of what will happen before me, I long for stability, I long for that sense of eternity. I’m not saying I long for death I don’t think that is what the Teacher had in mind here in this verse; I think its Gods plan. But there is reality, I don’t know, I can’t know what is going on, it’s just not possible. Even if I take the book of Revelation literally this verse makes it clear that there is no way for us to understand what is going to happen neither in our life time nor in the life span of the world. I believe that this lesson is part of good Christian

I decided today I will do a double post. A lot of things have been happening here in Allentown, both in the church and in my personal life. One thing from my personal life I can't post yet but I'll do that soon enough. One of the top items is that one of my hearing aids was destroyed. The dog got a hold of it. I can laugh about it now but when it happened the dog was luck I didn't get rid of it. So for the last week I have struggled to find out how to get hearing aids. They are not covered under the conference health insurance, renters insurance didn't cover it either. For those of you that don't know (which is most people) the average set of hearing aids is 3,000 dollars, that means the dog had a 1,500 dollar snack. Also the majority of insurances don't cover hearing aids so that means your on your own. The only way Katie and I figured I could get a new set was to get a second job, which of course is against the discipline but I had to try. When I ta