i love this. i love how you bring such clarity. sometimes i have an irrational feeling that if i’m too content, some things will never change when i NEED them to change (or at least think i do). i don’t know where this comes from, because certainly other things don’t stay static.
Thought of you…
“Being content does not mean we are satisfied. In fact, to be content is to know we will always be groaning on this side of eternity. Yet when we believe that fullness will come, that there is more than this life, we live with contentment.”
~Lisa Graham Mc Minn
I’m with Allison. I too, have somewhat reluctantly wound up in this reality called content. T’was uncomfortable to begin with; I didn’t really want to transition from being a fast-paced guy who just always had to have something going on, or ‘about’ to go on/happen. Content is certainly a humbling reality I’m learning to adapt to, and live in. It’s a unique form of submission to Papa (for me, at least), in that it’s really all about my welfare; not necessarily an ‘elevation’ of His Divinity over my mortality. And so I’ve taken a little fancy to ‘content’; since it’s more about a relational benefit, than it is, a religious doctrine.
Thank you Mandy, for putting into words, something I’ve barely been able to fathom for several weeks, now. Such clarity in this I love it
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… it is digging our heels in, even in the midst of the shifting sands of time. {love this!!}
i love this. i love how you bring such clarity. sometimes i have an irrational feeling that if i’m too content, some things will never change when i NEED them to change (or at least think i do). i don’t know where this comes from, because certainly other things don’t stay static.
beautiful balance you’ve laid here.
This. FREAKING PERFECT.
yes. and amen.
“this just means i’m accepting NOW in its fragility & brevity”
i needed this reminder.
This is exactly where I am. When I try to explain it to others I can’t even find the words. Thank you for this!
love reading these comments.
Thought of you…
“Being content does not mean we are satisfied. In fact, to be content is to know we will always be groaning on this side of eternity. Yet when we believe that fullness will come, that there is more than this life, we live with contentment.”
~Lisa Graham Mc Minn
Thank you. <3
I’m with Allison. I too, have somewhat reluctantly wound up in this reality called content. T’was uncomfortable to begin with; I didn’t really want to transition from being a fast-paced guy who just always had to have something going on, or ‘about’ to go on/happen. Content is certainly a humbling reality I’m learning to adapt to, and live in. It’s a unique form of submission to Papa (for me, at least), in that it’s really all about my welfare; not necessarily an ‘elevation’ of His Divinity over my mortality. And so I’ve taken a little fancy to ‘content’; since it’s more about a relational benefit, than it is, a religious doctrine.
Thank you Mandy, for putting into words, something I’ve barely been able to fathom for several weeks, now. Such clarity in this
I love it