DBQ: Enjoying Food, Drink, and Work

“There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment?” (Ecclesiastes 2:24-25). Some people see this verse as the inevitable action of the depressed hedonist, someone who has encountered the vanity of life and can do nothing but pursue a life of pleasure. I disagree with this conclusion, and believe that the conclusion to enjoy food, drink, and work is a godly and wise response to the vanity in this world. I see food, drink, and work as a gift from God, someone to be enjoyed in this life in which there is so much suffering yet where the grace of God shines through. Is this interpretation of Ecclesiastes common in your Christian church or community? Should there be a bigger place in Christian ethics for the pure enjoyment of these gifts from God?