Essays
Ecclesiastes is about big longings held inside a short, ordinary life. These essays take one situation at a time and end with one thing to do this week. Start with the one that sounds like your week.
- When doing everything right doesn't work outI did everything right and it still didn't work out.
- Missing the old daysWhy we miss the old days so much.
- The blanket fortNoticing an ordinary evening with your kids.
- 48 on paperFeeling every age at once.
- Remember your Creator: Ecclesiastes 12A poem about growing old, written to people still in the full, loud years.
- Chalk before the rainEnjoying what you have before it is gone.
- The carpenter's thumbDoing good work that no one will see.
- Enough is not a numberWhy enough never feels like enough.
- Why even a good life leaves you wanting moreWhat Ecclesiastes says about wanting more, and how to live with it.
- The dents in the refrigerator doorHow to notice your own life again: four questions.
- Why we stay so busyHow a full schedule keeps anyone from asking how you really are.
- How to build close friendships as an adultFor when you know a lot of people and have no one to call for dinner.
- You got what you wanted. Now what?Why reaching the goal does not end the wanting.
- The white-knuckle gripWhy trying to control everything takes the joy out of it.
