"The God-Given Task"

It's so easy for me to focus on the wrong/negative things in life; to complain... I'm tired... my head hurts...my house is a mess...I'm struggling with that same sin again... and so on. Lately I have striven to focus on being thankful and joyful in this life and job God has blessed me with, that of being a wife and mommy and keeper of our home. Yesterday I was reading in Ecclesiastes and read a passage that made me smile, because it seemed to fit what I had been convicted about. In my Bible the passage is titled "The God-Given Task" and i thank the Lord for the reminder, as well as how simple His desires for us are.

Ecclesiastes 3:9-13

"What gain has the worker from his toil? I have seen the business that God has given to the sons of man to be busy with. He has made everything beautiful in it's time. Also He has put eternity into mans heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil- this is God's gift to man." 

What could be more straightforward or simple than that? There is nothing better than to be joyful and do good, eat, drink, and take pleasure in toil, what a wonderful God given task!