It’s easy to imagine the moment King Solomon – while sitting amid his beautiful parks and gardens – suddenly realized all his riches and accomplishments would eventually crumble to rubble. His paradise. The First Temple. National wealth. Indeed, all the grandeur he accumulated was ultimately decimated by Babylonian conquest.

Solomon surmised that “all the deeds that are done under the sun … all is vanity and a chasing after wind” (Ecclesiastes 1:14). They were vanity because they had no lasting power.

Things haven’t changed. Today, we’re constantly redirected to material comforts and marketing campaigns, often bolstered by celebrities who want nothing more than to lasso our attention and pocketbooks, often at the expense of virtually everything else. Who needs love when Tinder offers a t

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