What's the point?

After Ecclesiastes 3:9-15

We ask these questions, like

what’s the point?, because

we have eternity inserted

from the beginning, inserted

into our hearts, it’s there,

and it brings doubts

and fears and questions,

always questions, and

many of us, or most of us,

reject it because

we do not understand it,

we don’t get this

alpha and omega stuff,

we just don’t, and so

we reach for happiness

or what we think it is

and it takes the place

of eternity, the place

of wisdom, the place

of character. But we confuse

the gift with the giver,

we revere the gift not

the giver, and it is the history

of humanity until history

is pounded with nails.

Photograph by Jeremy Bishop via Unsplash. Used with permission.