Category: Contentment
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This Christmas (Christmas Contentment)
Since my divorce I had always set aside money for Christmas. I wanted to give my children the three gifts, as had been the tradition for Christmas since their births. Jesus got 3 so they got 3. That was the logic behind our plan. Besides that, it would help keep Christmas reasonable, with our growing family this was…
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Disappointed vs Disappointing
How many people really have the fairy tale life? Well, we don’t really expect the fairy tale life, do we? How many people even have the life that they dreamed they would have when they were kids? Most of us realize that we’re not going to get the fairy tale, but we do hope to have…
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Quality not Quantity
I heard something interesting recently. About our children and how they are being raised in a day where they are constantly seen and recorded. So many pictures taken by themselves and by others. This kind of constant observation can lead to the idea that you have to be perfect or always appear on just right.…
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Nothing Has Gone Wrong
My friend gave me a list of statements of affirmation and asked me to look at them and see which one spoke to me. I would memorize these and say them like a mantra to encourage myself. Some of the things I’ve written recently are because of those statements. When I first looked at the…
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What’s Been Lost
I’ve discovered an area of my life that I need to dig into. It’s interesting how God works in us. He doesn’t just let issues lay in you forever unresolved, he allows things to bring them to the surface because they need to be dealt with. Today, I’m having to dig up something I’ve been…
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Middle Age
The other day, I used the term “Middle Aged” to describe myself, and it’s not entirely inaccurate. Even if I were to live to 90 years, I would be halfway through my life now. That means I am indeed middle-aged. I remember hearing stories about middle-aged people, in an effort to feel young, doing dramatic…
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Choose Contentment
A few years ago, God gave me a message. I knew it would be what I needed to hear because that is what I had prayed for, but it wasn’t what I wanted to hear. It was a message about contentment. Let me explain the circumstances the message was delivered in. I had gone to visit a church which…
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