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"This is my prayer in the desert

When all that's within me feels dry

This is my prayer in my hunger and need

My God is the God who provides

This is my prayer in the fire

In weakness or trial of pain

There is a faith proved of more worth than gold

So refine me Lord through the flame

And I will bring praise, I will bring praise

No weapon formed against me shall remain

I will rejoice, I will declare

God is my victory and He is here."

In Ecclesiastics 1: 2, it says "'Meaningless! Meaning!' says the Teacher. 'Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.'" I was thinking the other day and life is a never-ending cycle of work. Having the mentality that "I just need to get this finished for tonight" doesn't work anymore because after that, there will be even more and more work. I guess due do this mentality work has been burdensome to me lately. Isn't it kind of depressing? Working for the rest of your life when it'll become meaningless in the end. After struggling with this mentality, I came to accept that life will always be an unending cycle of work. However, it is my choice how I choose to live it. I can choose to trust God no matter the circumstances that I go through and be joyful or I can choose to complain about work. And then through failing, I learned that I always have a reason to be thankful. I always have a reason to be joyful because Jesus died on the cross for my sins so that I can be united with God. That surpasses anything of this world. I know where I belong. Jesus already won. He's victorious. So no matter the circumstance I am in, I have a reason to be thankful, to worship, to be joyful.