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I Can't Get Me No Satisfaction - Day 266 Month 9-22 Week 36-7

Today's Reading (Bible in 1 year) 2 Kings 23:4-33, Ecclesiastes 6, Daniel 5:1-12, Philippians 2:19-30 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings%2023%3A4-33%2C%20Ecclesiastes%206%2C%20Daniel%205%3A1-12%2C%20Philippians%202%3A19-30&version=NASB1995 I Can’t Get Me No Satisfaction “ If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he” (Ecclesiastes 6:3). I’m happy there is more to Ecclesiastes than chapter 6.  Solomon is painting a picture of life that has little purpose.  He’s basically saying that if your soul is never satisfied, even a long life filled with children and possessions can be so empty that it would seem better never to have lived. There are times when my soul is not satisfied.  I have dreams.  I am one of those people who have dreams of many different things.  Just this mo...