What Really Matters?: A Kids Bible Story from Ecclesiastes About Seasons, Gratitude, and Putting God First. KJV Verses Included. Ages 3-8

A king who owned everything sat down at the end of it all and asked the one question none of it could answer. What actually lasts?Ecclesiastes is the strangest book in the Bible and one of the most honest. The same king who collected the wise sayings of Proverbs writes here about the houses he built, the gardens he planted, the music he paid for and the money he piled up - and then says that running after those things is like running after the wind. You can chase wind all day and never come home holding any of it.That sounds heavy for a small child, and it is not, because of where the book lands. It lands on seasons. There is a time to plant and a time to gather. A time to cry and a time to laugh, and both of them are allowed. Nothing lasts forever, which means the hard stretch will not last forever either. And it lands on small, near, ordinary things: eat your bread, enjoy your work, be glad of the people around you, and remember the God who made you while you are still young.The pictures follow a fishing family through one turning year on a wide, windy shore - planting behind the dunes, mending nets on the quay, braiding a rope that will not snap, watching a river run out into a sea that is never full, and walking home together under an enormous evening sky.Inside this book: - Children chasing feathers down the beach, and never catching the wind- A time to plant, and the same ground heavy with barley by summer- A time to cry and a time to laugh, handled gently- Two are better than one, and a three stranded cord that holds- Bread sent out across the water, and a heap of coins that is never enough- A King James Version verse to learn together, with the reference- Three questions, words to know, a short prayer, and a Read It Yourself page for ages 8 to 12Written for ages 3 to 8 to be read aloud, with a back page of King James Version passages for older readers of 8 to 12 to look up on their own.Book 21 of 66 in KJV Bible Adventures for Kids - one picture book for every book of the Bible, in order, from Genesis to Revelation.From Guy Charlie Books, a small, veteran-owned publisher.