Sometimes I feel like I'm left out of alot of stuff. Alot of fun and laughter and events. Not invited, not informed, never though of. Often times I even feel disliked. Not like no one likes me, because I have friends and people seem to enjoy being around me, but I often feel very tolerated. Like that person that no one has the heart to tell they're annoying and over-bearing. Maybe I'm over thinking it. Maybe I'm just inconsistent in my behavior because sometimes people want to be around me and other times they don't. I've matured alot in the last year so I think I understand better now how to handle myself with other people than I used to, but even though I feel really comfortable around people and being in the mix, I'm not always as comfortable/accepted as I convince myself I am. Once a homeschooler, always a homeschooler. ehh, I'll figure it out. No Biggie.
-Evan
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Ecclesiastes Chapter 1
Ecclesiastes! I'm so excited to continue the reading and blogging we did in Proverbs. I think continuing into this book was smart because in a way it is a continuation of Proverbs, and in a way, it's also a counter to it.
In Proverbs, Solomon talks over and over about how important wisdom is, and how to get it. In the first chapter of Ecclesiastes he almost bad mouths it. He tells how much stress and sorrow it brings. So confused. Should we have wisdom or not?
1-11
Solomon explains here how everything has become meaningless around him. Verse 2 is basically him just saying "Meaningless, Meaningless, Meaningless!" He points out here that everything has been done and will be done again. He's right in the sense that history in a way keeps repeating itself. the same kind of thing happens all the time, and life is not really lived in news ways, the same streams keep flowing and the ocean never fills, we keep hearing but our ears are never full. We will never truly be satisfied with these things of Earth because they are meaningless, a "chasing after the wind" Solomon calls it. "What does a man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?" I think there is a lot to gain even from the most useless and ending things on Earth. Lessons to be learned or maybe they lead to something bigger and more important.
12-18
Solomon had great wisdom, but he had so much sorrow. I think he understood and knew all things so well that he could truly see the vanity and foolishness of earthly toil and it saddened him. He says that all things done under the sun are vain and a chasing after the wind. but I think that if you are doing anything to help other people come to know Jesus, or just to help other people at all, you are doing good under the sun. I'm confused by exactly what he means when he says that everything is meaningless on Earth. If everything was meaningless, God wouldn't have bothered to make the Earth at all. Maybe he means all things that are of Earth are meaningless. I dunno.
It seems that Solomon learned that endless wisdom and knowledge isn't always so great. It brought him sorrow, and it brought him vexation. In a way I'm glad that I cannot have the same wisdom Solomon had. I can have a true wisdom of things and not have to have such a sorrow from it, for I can never be that smart.
It's interesting to me to see the book of Proverbs in comparison to this. All Solomon does in Proverbs is talk about wisdom and how saving and lasting it is. But here he says that it also is meaningless in the end.
Good stuff.
-Evan
In Proverbs, Solomon talks over and over about how important wisdom is, and how to get it. In the first chapter of Ecclesiastes he almost bad mouths it. He tells how much stress and sorrow it brings. So confused. Should we have wisdom or not?
1-11
Solomon explains here how everything has become meaningless around him. Verse 2 is basically him just saying "Meaningless, Meaningless, Meaningless!" He points out here that everything has been done and will be done again. He's right in the sense that history in a way keeps repeating itself. the same kind of thing happens all the time, and life is not really lived in news ways, the same streams keep flowing and the ocean never fills, we keep hearing but our ears are never full. We will never truly be satisfied with these things of Earth because they are meaningless, a "chasing after the wind" Solomon calls it. "What does a man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?" I think there is a lot to gain even from the most useless and ending things on Earth. Lessons to be learned or maybe they lead to something bigger and more important.
12-18
Solomon had great wisdom, but he had so much sorrow. I think he understood and knew all things so well that he could truly see the vanity and foolishness of earthly toil and it saddened him. He says that all things done under the sun are vain and a chasing after the wind. but I think that if you are doing anything to help other people come to know Jesus, or just to help other people at all, you are doing good under the sun. I'm confused by exactly what he means when he says that everything is meaningless on Earth. If everything was meaningless, God wouldn't have bothered to make the Earth at all. Maybe he means all things that are of Earth are meaningless. I dunno.
It seems that Solomon learned that endless wisdom and knowledge isn't always so great. It brought him sorrow, and it brought him vexation. In a way I'm glad that I cannot have the same wisdom Solomon had. I can have a true wisdom of things and not have to have such a sorrow from it, for I can never be that smart.
It's interesting to me to see the book of Proverbs in comparison to this. All Solomon does in Proverbs is talk about wisdom and how saving and lasting it is. But here he says that it also is meaningless in the end.
Good stuff.
-Evan
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