tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18685226.post6041789231202954205..comments2023-06-13T08:13:45.039-04:00Comments on Homeward Bound: SeasonsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18685226.post-82986179395634743072008-11-26T11:04:00.000-05:002008-11-26T11:04:00.000-05:00Hi Sarah,It’s me again! You really got me thinking...Hi Sarah,<BR/>It’s me again! You really got me thinking! I stayed up way too late trying to say something about contentment that I couldn’t quite nail down. I don’t think I can nail this down, but here I am back for another try! Contentment is an evasive thing for me. <BR/>We never quite “arrive” at being all content. Oh, there are seasons of contentment; some short, some longer, brought about by realization of our great blessings from God or partaking in the fruit of the Spirit. I guess discontent keeps us realizing this world is not our home keeps us longing for heaven! <BR/>I can relate to being in the car so much. I am finished with home schooling our daughters now, but I remember a busy season of our lives when I would say, “We don’t home school, we CAR school!” I learned the blessing of staying home and the need for home.<BR/>Sarah, that you desire contentment and understand the struggle of being content is a good thing! Considering even our everyday blessings normally taken for granted can lead to thankfulness which leads to contentment. I’m so glad you wrote your post! I’m being reminded again that contentment and thankfulness walk hand in hand and that if I desire contentment I need to join hands with thankfulness! In each season there is temptation for discontent and as your brother wrote, there is temptation to look back to Eqypt unrealistically! <BR/>May God bless you, dear Sarah as God leads you to contentment. He does fulfill every need.<BR/><BR/>These lyrics from Rich Mullin’s song “One Thing” were dancing in my brain after I woke up this morning and began thinking of contentment.<BR/><BR/>Everybody I know says they need just one thing <BR/>And what they really mean is that they need just one thing more <BR/>And everybody seems to think they've got it coming <BR/>Well I know that I don't deserve You <BR/>Still I want to love and serve You more and more <BR/>You're my one thing <BR/><BR/>Save me from those things that might distract me <BR/>Please take them away and purify my heart <BR/>I don't want to lose the eternal for the things that are passing <BR/>'Cause what will I have when the world is gone If it isn't for the love that goes on and on with <BR/><BR/>My one thing <BR/>You're my one thing <BR/>And the pure in heart shall see God <BR/>You're my one thing <BR/>You're my one thing <BR/>And the pure in heart shall see GodAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18685226.post-77693647551595077032008-11-26T01:57:00.000-05:002008-11-26T01:57:00.000-05:00Dear Sarah,First let me say how I got here.(I mean...Dear Sarah,<BR/>First let me say how I got here.(I mean to your blog.)<BR/>Your mom... your brother.. you! How I got to your mom's, then bros etc. I'm not so sure. God knows, though!<BR/>I may not be able to answer any of your questions! I am finding that so many of the things I long for are choices. I know I need to choose contentment, thankfulness etc., but I don't always know how to do this practically. I wonder if there is a difference between restlessness and discontentment. Discontent is complainy I guess and restlessness is a "stirring" or lookng forward to something else. Okay I know I'm rambling.<BR/>Do you think we can get too content to the point of thinking we don't need God as much? <BR/>Maybe it is the Christmas season or maybe it is my season of life but I think we both need to read "A Cup of Christmas Tea." This somehow seems to help put some of your questions (and mine which are similar) into perspective. Sarah, I'm not sure what to say, but I can and will pray.<BR/>LaurieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18685226.post-37042472738032965732008-11-18T21:50:00.000-05:002008-11-18T21:50:00.000-05:00Ah yes the sin of discontentment.. I'm no stranger...Ah yes the sin of discontentment.. I'm no stranger to it either. And well let me encourage you to continue to fight it in your single years. Because there will come a day when the season you wanted to change will change and the sin of discontentment will come back out in a new form. I speak from experience :-) I read the Art of Discontentment a few years back and thought it was outstanding. Here's a quote from the book. <BR/><BR/>God sees in his infinite wisdom that the same condition is not convenient for all; that which is good for one, may be bad for another. One season of weather will not serve all men’s occasions; one needs sunshine, another rain: one condition of life will not fit every man, any more than one suit of apparel will fit every body: prosperity is not fit for all, nor yet adversity.<BR/> The Art of Divine Contentment, Watson p41<BR/><BR/>If you search contentment on my blog I've posted a bunch of other quotes that you might find helpful. Take Care!Tarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01819886376774696190noreply@blogger.com