Hi, and welcome to Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

Well, we made it a month. Can you believe it? This is the last show of the first month of the Five Word Prayers Daily podcast, and it

has been a beautiful month for me, and I hope a worthwhile month for you here every day.

I'm so grateful you're listening and sharing, and I hope you'll continue to do that.

It's also January 31st, my oldest son's birthday.

So I have to give a shout out to Graham.

He might not even be listening, but I'll take that chance.

Happy 20th birthday, son.

Oh, I cannot even believe it.

We made it 20 years.

I always prayed we would those early days of the strong-willed child and acid reflux and no sleep.

Any parents out there really?

Yeah, but it was good and happiest of birthdays to you, my son.

So enough lead-in.

I want to get into the show today because I came across a verse recently that stopped me in my tracks.

I've probably read this verse dozens of times before in my life,

but this time it struck me. Ever had that happen? It struck me because I think it may be what a lot

of us are doing, even unknowingly, and it's shooting us in the foot spiritually. So here we go.

Yeah. So here we go. The book of Ecclesiastes, as you may know, was written by Solomon, a diary or autobiography

of sorts, looking back on his life and kind of giving us a blow by

blow, reminiscing on what worked and mostly what didn't. And then in the end, even, his final

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