"We live our lives at breakneck speed. Year after year passes, and the events of each melt into bittersweet memory. The little boy next door too rapidly progresses from Big Wheels to Hot Wheels to ten-speeds to speeding tickets. At eighteen, he goes to college, emerges at twenty-one with a degree and a seeming-ly endless road in front of him. He enters the marketplace and begins to climb the proverbial corporate ladder. Somewhere along the way he marries. As salary increases come, so do babies and medical bills and insurance premiums. Promotions are accompanied by larger mortgages, fatter car loans, piano lessons, and soccer practice. As his kids grow, so does our hero's checking account at least at the first of each month. Then around the time his youngest is ready for braces and his oldest for college, the crisis hits."

Don Anderson's study in Ecclesiastes vividly presents Solomon as a man in the throes of a mid-life crisis. Not just an analysis of the various problems that confront a person in middlescence, The Mid-Life Crisis provides biblical answers to the trauma that so many are experiencing in today's world.