Contentment

We have made the transition from our church home of 23 years to a new body of believers.
No small thing.

The sense of change had been in the background for a few years.
Until we finally knew it was the right time and this the right company of people.

We have said our farewells, given our thanks, and burnt our boats.
Very exciting.
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I was recently made aware of my tendency to look back with longing at what had passed. . .

No problem with valuing the people, places and things - BIG problem with their looming so large that I was blind to the good things I have now.

I was being awakened to seeing and appropriating the beauty and the bounty that is present in my life NOW. . .

It has a name: CONTENTMENT

Find the joy and the good things in TODAY.

It has a HUGE bearing on how life is lived, I have found.

It is easy to look back and wish we were still 'there' or to look forward and wish something 'out there' had already arrived.

Something of this is natural but when the present passes unnoticed, unappreciated, UNLIVED it becomes a problem.

And that happens too easily.

This is an ongoing reminder to me (and a suggestion to any who may visit here)-
live today fully
There will never ever be another day quite like it.

Even in the difficult days, the Lord is present and active although sometimes it appears the opposite is true.

"So as we move on into a new season, Lord, may I embrace what lies ahead fully and this time not look back at what I am leaving behind in people, places or life style."

He is able.