title: Ecclesiastes Through New Eyes: A Table in the Mist
author: Jeffrey Meyers
description: Pastor Jeffrey J. Meyers has served Providence Reformed Presbyterian Church (PCA) in St. Louis, Missouri, since 1994. He has served in the US Army, taught Christian school, and is a graduate of the University of Missouri (BS), Covenant Theological Seminary (MDiv), and Concordia Theological Seminary (STM). He is the author of "The Lord's Service: The Grace of Covenant Renewal Worship" (Canon Press, 2003) and a forthcoming commentary on James in this present series. Jeff and his wife Chris have four children.
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  Milo James Fowler125,650 words
  
  
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  Tomorrow's Children
  
  
  Spirits of the Earth - Book 2
  
  
  by Milo James Fowler
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "Generations come and generations go,
  
  
  but the earth remains forever."
  
  
  Ecclesiastes 1:4
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Part I: Contact
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
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  Bishop
  
  
  18 Months After All-Clear
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I look into the mirror over the sink, but the face staring back at me is not
  my own. Maybe it was, once. Now I can't be sure. The eyes are wrong: dead in
  their red-rimmed sockets. Yet somewhere down deep, shoved under and held there
  by forces beyond my control, a heart still pumps. Fresh blood circulates.
  Lungs manage to squeeze oxygen out of the air.
  
  
  So I'm alive. For what it's worth.
  
  
  I close my eyes and p