Not all human reason, not all human knowledge, not everything, in fact, nothing that man does will fulfill him completely.

And Solomon was living proof of this. And meditating on this throughout the week, meditating on the book of Ecclesiastes, I remembered many cases here in this city.

One of the cases was of a famous owner of a store, of a chain of stores that is here in Caculé, in Licínio, in Urandi, I think there is also one in Jacaraci, a man who since his youth, according to the story, rode a bicycle and sold clothes, whatever he could sell.

And this man made a lot of money. So much so that his stores are still in business, but he contracted a disease that, if not detected early, becomes a fatal disease: he contracted cancer. I think it was stomach cancer.

And according to what I heard someone say, before this man died, he said that he would exchange all his wealth for health. That he would trade everything he had, everything he had achieved, simply to have life, to have health. But, unfortunately, it was too late. This man realized, in a tragic way, because he, unfortunately, passed away, that money will not buy health, that riches will not buy life, that no wealth that man possesses, nothing that man possesses, will be able to buy what is essential: life, eternal salvation.

This is not possible for riches to do. And Solomon realized this truth. Solomon realized that our life, here below the earth, does not make sense if we look at it, only below the sun, but above it.

This means that our life makes sense if we look at God with the eternal vision, not with the human vision.

Not with the vision of someone who lives here simply to live, simply to pass the days. And, consequently, whoever lives this way will have a pessimistic view, a negative view of life.