Melanie helps us to make sense of meaning (and seeming meaninglessness) by going to Ecclesiastes we continue on in 52 Verses, 52 Books and 52 Weeks for 2026.
All that anticipation, all that preparation—and then it amounts to nothing. Do you ever feel like your life is like that? That’s exactly where Ecclesiastes begins, with a preacher who achieved everything a person could want and still found his toil was vanity, a striving after wind.
As we move on from the “spectacular” of Christmas, what does the last part of Luke 2 tell us about living in the boring and ordinary?
Do our lives really matter? Does anything we do really matter? Because of Christmas, we have answers to these questions.