We've heard the cry of meaninglessness or vanity of vanities and Ecclesiastes,

but does that really mean everything under the sun is meaningless?

Today I am exploring the joy, humility, and lessons on the sovereign God from Ecclesiastes

and how we can prove faithful when that dish you just washed gets dirty again.

Music when that dish you just washed gets dirty again. Welcome to the She-Proves Faithful Podcast, episode number 220, truth and encouragement to live

gospel-centered lives every day. I'm your host, Lauren Lushak.

Hey, everyone, welcome to the podcast. I'm so glad you're here. Thank you for listening.

Today, I'm so excited to share some things I've been learning out of Ecclesiastes, a book that I have dubbed the Miserable Book, the Book of Depression, which is actually quite the opposite when you read

it and understand the context of it.

And so I'm really excited to share some insights that I've been learning, and hopefully that

will give you joy in the things that feel in vain.

A huge shout out, too, to my Patreon supporters. These are people who donate

five or more dollars a month and help me do this podcast. Thank you so much. You guys are the

wind beneath my wings. You enable me to do this. So I'm really grateful for you. If you need an

update on the banana spider situation BP, she has moved her web further down.

And I feel like it's getting closer to, well, it is face level now.

Before it was like up in the corner.

Totally cool with that.

Today I was like, where is she?

And she was on a pillar in our front porch stringing up her beautiful, incredibly delicate web

right at face level. I feel like it's time for BP to find a new home. We'll see. This thing literally

shed its skin. I didn't know spiders molted, but it shed its skin. And everything I'm reading it says

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