The book of Ecclesiastes is a painful book to read.
Arriving at conclusions about things we do not want to think about and many things we do not want to confront.
The belief that we are lacking vital efforts and knowledge to attain desired results to extend life we attempt to accumulate that knowledge through the internet.
We perhaps are under the false perception that we can alter what God has made crooked.
"Consider what God has done:
Who can straighten
what he has made crooked?" ~Ecc.7:13
what he has made crooked?" ~Ecc.7:13
Do we even think of God making things crooked and us thinking that we can alter what he has made?
Have we ever attempted to straighten that which we perceive as crooked only to arrive at its futility and pointlessness?
We become so emotional and less able to process a devasting diagnosis as Alzheimer's?
The belief that we are somehow lacking vital efforts in our straining for our own desired results as if it is our sole purposed to help God extend life one more day.
No amount of wisdom, knowedge, and experience will determine the end.
"For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." ~Eccl.1:18
Psalm 139:16
"Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them."
So for those of us who are pious and brainwashed, we wrestle with what honestly goes on in our minds as givers of care. We want to give care on our terms often undermining what you are trying to accomplish. We often placate our minds by searching for just one more way, one more diet fad, one more essential oil in the quest for longevity instead of more time spent in God's Word . The more time spent in that Word, the clearer will be your understanding of what to do. The more time you spend with your loved one and relishing in their presence,
the more you will enjoy that crookedness.
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