19 Bread is made for laughter,
and wine gladdens life,
and money answers everything.
and wine gladdens life,
and money answers everything.
- What do meals mean to you?
- How is eating to live different from living to eat?
- While there is obviously nothing wrong with enjoying a meal, what are the risks of focusing on the enjoyment of each meal?
- How does wine make life merry?
- What additional substances are used today to make life merry?
- What does wine/drug do to the struggles and hardships of life?
- What are the risks of using wine/drug to make life merry?
- Why does money seem to be the answer to everything?
- How is having money to live different from living to have money?
- What are the risks of focusing on gaining money?
- What are the risks of depending on money as the answer?
- How different was the world view in Solomon's time from ours today?
- What are the hazards of centering your world view on the physical pleasures/needs?
Once again something written thousands of years ago echoes life today. Obesity is a major health problem in America today. Why? Because we seek comfort and pleasure in food to offset the struggles and worries of life. What if food doesn't work? We move to heavier things, like alcohol or other drugs. Maybe we will not go that far, but "if only I had [fill in the blank] I would be happy". We want to put our trust in what we can touch and control. The irony is we give up control to untrustworthy things. It is just chasing the wind.
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