Eternity Lives In You

Ecclesiastes 3:9-13
What do people really get

for all their hard work?

I have seen the burden

God has placed on us all.

Yet God has made everything
beautiful

for its own time.

He has planted eternity

in the human heart,

but even so,

people cannot see the whole scope

of God’s work

from beginning to end.

So I concluded
there is nothing better

than to be happy
and enjoy ourselves

as long as we can.

And people should eat and drink

and enjoy the fruits of their labor,

for these are gifts from God.

Cassell’s Illustrated Bible, c1870

Wood Block Engraving

Winter 2011