Hey friends,
today I had a talk with a friend about life and contentment. We were feeling under-appreciated about our strengths and gifts and needed to rant about it.
Granted that just fueled our discontentment but it happens right?
I started to think more on this when I got back to my house. It's easy to feel discontent with where you are in life...job, physical state, house, finances, spouse or lack there of, spiritual, the grays, the needs, the wants, the shortcomings, the light at the end of the tunnel that seems too far gone...the list is endless.
Then I thought, if I am so consumed with being discontent, many opportunities, good or bad, will escape my attention. Yes, it's very hallmark-esque...however, it's true. How hard is it for us to stay content...actually be ok with where we are at...wrestle with the pains, the aches of something not there anymore. It all passes with time. I mean where we actually look at everything in the face and say "sure, why not?".
Robert Frost talked about the road less travelled; the road less realized too perhaps? How lonely that road is? One where contentment seems to overflow and drown out the doubts, worries, fears and uncertainty.
Christmas is coming around soon...let's rethink contentment.
<3
C
:-)
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