Some Thoughts on Contentment

Contentment. Wow. Such a beautiful thing. Such a hard thing to maintain. Why?

Contentment requires rest. Intentionality. Thankfulness. All difficult things to cultivate. But with Christ’s help and by abiding in Him contentment is possible! Believe it mama! You can be content and joyful in whatever circumstances you are in if you LEARN (like Paul did). It’s a process. It is not natural. It must be learned and practiced.

I read this “prescription for contentment” this morning from the book Calm My Anxious Heart by Linda Dillow and I just had to share it with you mamas! As a side note, anxiety and discontentment are deeply connected. Practice contentment and you will find your anxiety decrease.

A woman’s prescription for contentment:

• Never allow yourself to complain about anything-not even the weather.
• Never picture yourself in any other circumstances or someplace else.
• Never compare your lot with another’s.
• Never allow yourself to wish this or that had been otherwise.
• Never dwell on tomorrow-remember that tomorrow is God’s, not yours.

Hmmmmm, seem extreme?? NEVER??? Yep. Contentment is extreme. It’s polar opposite of what your flesh wants and what the world promotes. We have to be extreme in order to combat discontentment. So you in? One day at a time we can put into practice this prescription for contentment and watch our hearts and minds change.

Love, Katie

Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. ¹I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Philippians 4:11-13

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