Jordan - Ecclesiastes 5

It is fitting to read Ecclesiates in November when Thanksgiving is on the horizon.  Verses 18 and 19 sum up the holiday for me:

"This is what I have seen to be good: it is fitting to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of life God gives us; for this is our lot.  Likewise all to whom God gives wealth and possessions and whom he enables to enjoy them, and to accept their lot and find enjoyment in their toil - this is the gift of God."

These words aren't to comfort the blessed, they are words of thanksgiving.  But these words are surrounded by cautions because there is a difference between thanking God for our rich life and dwelling on our own possessions, and measuring ourselves againt what we have versus others.