Soul-Satisfying Contentment.
For me,
It wasn't in a wedding
or a marriage
or in bearing a child
or buying a house
or a car or a cat or a sofa.
For me,
It wasn't in a church
or a church position of authority
or an outside job
or all the money I wanted
or books
or gardens
or movies
or vacations
or food
or parties
or in collecting stuff.
For me,
It wasn't in being thin
or pretty
nor in the right hairstyle or clothes
or in friends
or being well-liked and accepted.
It wasn't in going to college
or in cramming my brain with facts
or using 9-letter words to impress others
or in being right.
For me,
It was only found in
friendship with Jesus.
Argh. So we all switched to Halo Scan because Blogger Comments had become unreliable. And lately I've been convicted to try answering my comments more promptly, trying to set a good example and all that stuff.
So of course what happens? Halo Scan is now going bonkers.
Lately when I go to comment about all your marvelous comments I get messages like this after just making one simple comment of my own:
"Please wait at least 30 seconds between posts (another -41744 second(s))."
Hmm. Do you think I should sit here and count 41,744 seconds before trying again?
Hey, why not? I have nothing better to do.
Good grief.
Well, if you don't see a comment from me about your comment, please assume I tried. My comments are there--honest they are. And every one of them is ultra-witty and clever. Can I help it if Halo Scan has switched to invisible ink?
Summer is not my favorite season. Especially when we're having the hottest one here on record since 1967.
Well, our tv weatherman said we are heading that way.(I wanted to slap him.)
Heat and Humidity and I do not get along. We fight a lot. And by the time I'm finished fighting and complaining and whining, I have even less energy than I had to begin with.
But I'm (slowly) learning to not waste my feeble bit of energy on complaining about what I cannot change, but rather using wisdom when the sun bakes the house.
I am learning to walk around slowly on these mornings after nights which never did cool and just doing what I can. Accepting that.
Then I'm saving sit-down jobs for afternoons when I can sit in front of the air conditioner. To get my housework and gardening out of the way early, rejoicing I got any work done at all.
And to be thankful that we are "human-beings" instead of "human-doings." That God is more concerned with who we are--what's going on inside-- than what we do.
And that He wants to be our source of physical strength as well as emotional, mental and spiritual strength, too. I remind myself of that on these ridiculous, hot summer days.
And knowing that? I realize I'll be fine--and this, too, shall pass.
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"When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but on the abundance that's present--love, health, family, friends, work and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure-- the wasteland falls away and we experience joy in the real lives we live each day." ... Sarah Ban Breathnach
