Plenty to ponder this week, although I am not on my back porch. I shared with you last time that I had some surgery scheduled on my right knee…got that done and as of today I have a six week period ahead of the usual recovery steps to complete and it will be at least four weeks before I will be able to walk on that knee… point being I am in a recliner 24 hrs a day and totally dependent on my wife. I am a very private person about certain things so I will just say bathroom time has become a time of adventure and adapting. Now Ponder this. How do I transition from this to the book of Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 and what led me to go that way?

I got to pondering how helpless I am and it led me to this book Ecclesiastes. The main message of Ecclesiastes Chapter 4 in my view would be the great value of human relationships, that two are better than one. Adversity is no respecter of personage or age or position. God did not create Adam to be a solitary creature to struggle alone against the events of this life. It has been almost a week since my surgery and it has provided me some time to ponder my situation…here is the result. I find peace  knowing God never intended for me to be alone in these verses from Ecclesiastes… 

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

9 

Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their labor:

10 

If either of them falls down,
one can help the other up.
But pity anyone who falls
and has no one to help them up.

11 

Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
But how can one keep warm alone?

12 Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

I have my God, my wife and my church…and each strand of the cord strengthens my endurance in the faith.

jk