Contentment

What a great idea! To be content right now with what you have! I recently picked up a very interesting and thought provoking read the other day. Lots of good "food for thought."
The title alone sucked me right in "BE YOUR BEST" by Joyce Meyer. In one chapter it discusses the Sweet Satisfaction of Contentment and how most people desire it but are missing it entirely in their lives. It says " One of the characteristics of true joy is contentment, and if there is any quality people in the world today deeply desire and yet are missing it's contentment." Largely, because we are many times looking for something else to fulfill us. Thinking we need to be what others think we should be or be like others.

It goes on to say, "that in order to be content in our souls we need to realize that it comes over time with experiences and that we usually learn to be content after living a discontented life for a long period of time and then crying out to God for intervention." It's so interesting and liberating to know that we can be content here and right now with as little as we have or with a lot. For me it was when I gave up trying to do everything myself, giving it over to the Lord and letting go of the wheel so to speak. To seek what His will is for me. Just completely and entirely letting go! Living in the present and making it meaningful. Knowing and trusting that He will give to me, what's best for me because He loves me. To paraphrase the book: I only want what God wants me to have. I believe He is going to give it to me, but only if and when it is right for me to have it. How true that is to me and I sincerely need to remind myself of this often because part of contentment is finding where real joy lives and that is where I want to be.

Can you just feel the contentment from my niece Shea as she relaxes on her mommy?