Tag Archives: Lent

Ecclesiastes for Everyday: Day Eleven

Posted on March 18, 2019 by tmrichmond3

9 What gain have the workers from their toil? 10 I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with. 11 He has made everything beautiful for its time; moreover he has put a sense of eternity into … Continue reading →

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Ecclesiastes for Everyday: Day Ten

Posted on March 16, 2019 by tmrichmond3

3 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: 2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; 3 a time to … Continue reading →

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Ecclesiastes for Everyday: Day Nine

Posted on March 15, 2019 by tmrichmond3

 24 There is nothing better for mortals than to eat and drink, and find enjoyment in their toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God; 25 for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? 26 For … Continue reading →

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Ecclesiastes for Everyday: Day Eight

Posted on March 14, 2019 by tmrichmond3

18 I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to those who come after me 19 —and who knows whether they will be wise or foolish? Yet they will be master … Continue reading →

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Ecclesiastes for Everyday: Day Six

Posted on March 12, 2019 by tmrichmond3

4 I made great works; I built houses and planted vineyards for myself; 5 I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees. 6 I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees. … Continue reading →

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Ecclesiastes for Everyday: Day Five

Posted on March 11, 2019 by tmrichmond3

  2 I said to myself, “Come now, I will make a test of pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But again, this also was mere breath. 2 I said of mirth, “It is wild revelry,” and of pleasure, “What use is it?” 3 I searched … Continue reading →

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Ecclesiastes for Everyday: Day 4

Posted on March 9, 2019 by tmrichmond3

16 I said to myself, “I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me; and my mind has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.” 17 And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know revelry … Continue reading →

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Ecclesiastes for Everyday: Day 3

Posted on March 8, 2019 by tmrichmond3

There is nothing new under the sun. 10 Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has already been, in the ages before us. 11 The people of long ago are not remembered, nor … Continue reading →

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Ecclesiastes for Everyday: Day 2

Posted on March 7, 2019 by tmrichmond3

  All my life’s a circle… 3 What do people gain from all the toil at which they toil under the sun? 4 A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. 5 The sun rises and the sun goes … Continue reading →

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Ecclesiastes for Everyone: Day One, Ash Wednesday

Posted on March 6, 2019 by tmrichmond3

 1 The words of Qohelet [the Teacher/Preacher][i], David’s son[ii], king in Jerusalem: 2 Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher, Vanity of vanities. All is vanity.     In Percy Shelley’s poem Ozymandias, a traveler tells that he saw a ruined statue in … Continue reading →

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