Can we have it all?  One verse from Ecclesiastes seems to say that we can.  "It is good that you grasp one thing, and not let go of the other," it says, "for the one who trusts God will come forth with them both."
     What does this mean?  The key is the description, "one who trusts God."  Clearly, there are things we ought to desire, and clearly, there are some things that will work better for us than others.  We are not to cling to everything blindly and to suppose that this is what God wants us to do.  We are not to justify ourselves on the basis of what it seems we are able to get or do.  Just because we can do it, and just because we can have it does not make either one God's will.
     At its heart, God's will presents the essence of trust.  If we grab before we trust, we will always miss the mark.  If we grab after we trust, we will often miss the mark, too. We must not think in terms of what we can "get" from God, be it guidance, help, or material aid.  God is not a slot machine, not even for guidance.
     Talking with his disciples, Jesus once said, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looks back, is fit for the kingdom of God" (Luke 9:62).  Worldly speaking, we will never have it all.  We will always be incomplete.  But we can't look back.  We are to look ahead.  We do not worry about what we get.  We worry about how we can trust.
     And everything else falls in place.  It's a paradox, isn't it?  We seek, but we do not; we knock, but we cannot open.  We look but we cannot see.  But we seek, knock, and look, anyway.  We can go after what we want, we can go after what we need, yet in the end, we can trust in what we receive.
     Time's a gift, life's a gift, we're a gift.  We trust the gift, we trust the gift giver.
     So does many a verse in the book of Proverbs say, "Trusting God is the beginning of wisdom."