We spend much of our lives chasing what we think will finally make us feel fulfilled—success, knowledge, pleasure, money, control, more. Yet Ecclesiastes confronts us with an uncomfortable truth that each of us who has gotten what we’ve worked so hard for has come to learn the hard way: nothing in this world can fully satisfy the human soul. Everything eventually fades, disappoints, or slips through our hands.

In offering this insight the teacher of Ecclesiastes does not intend to be cynical, but honest. And in that honesty, he invites us to stop searching for ultimate meaning in temporary things and instead learn how to receive life as a gift from God.

Under the Sun is a journey through the words of the Teacher in Ecclesiastes, looking at the frustrations, limits, and longings of life in a way that ultimately points us toward a wiser, deeper, and more grounded way to live. As C.S. Lewis once said, “If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”

May 31 — Meaning

June 7 — Pleasure

June 14 — Work

June 21 — Power/Politics

June 28 — Money

July 5 — True Wisdom and the True Good Life