Category: Summer Challenge

Contentment Tool #5: Live Out Your Faith

07/14/2015contentment, Summer Challenge 2 Comments

post157graphicImagine that someone offered you a free cruise: you simply had to pack your bags, go to the pier and get on the ship. OK, that sounds easy enough, so you do it… well, almost. You pack your bags and go to the pier, but you aren’t sure about walking on board; it sounds too good to be true.

Soon, other people arrive and get on the ship. No one kicks them off. So, you study every piece of material you can find about this free cruise and finally you are convinced this is the real deal.

You’re so sure that you tell other people about the trip and they pack their bags and get on board! But when the ship sets sail, you continue reading here

Contentment Tool # 4: Compare Wisely”

07/07/2015contentment, Summer Challenge 5 Comments

post156graphic1Do you want to know how your friends are doing? Just pick up your phone and check their Facebook status updates. Within seconds, you can see photos of their amazingly behaved children, read about their romantic date nights, view their relaxing and luxurious vacation photos and eavesdrop on their most recent political/religious discussion/argument.

Believe it or not, there was a time when we didn’t know the daily details of our friends’ lives and we only had to deal with our envious, covetous, jealous or angry selves just once a year – when we received the  continue here

Listen to Your Words

06/30/2015contentment, Summer Challenge 7 Comments

post155graphic1 I saw this flower while I was walking a few days ago…

Its brilliant color caught my eye but what held my attention was where it was growing: in a crack in the sidewalk next to a busy road.
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I’ve always heard that a weed is a flower that happens to be growing in the wrong place. If we call this little plant a weed, then we want to pull it up and throw it away. If we call it a flower, we want to water it and watch it grow.

What we call this little plant matters; weed or flower — our words reveal our thoughts and therefore direct our actions.

Our words have power. Without realizing it, we might be sabotaging our contentment with our words. A habit of continue here

Contentment Tool #2: Remember That Life is Short

06/23/2015contentment, Summer Challenge 7 Comments

This year we celebrated Father’s Day with four dads in our family: my father-in-law, my husband and both our sons. And in the midst of all the joy I really missed my dad. Dad lived a fairly long life, but it was not long enough for me. Life is short!

In The Art of Divine Contentment Thomas Watson compares our lives to a day: daybreak is the period of our infancy, the sun rising is our youth, the full sun in the afternoon is our adulthood, sunset marks our old age, evening is that time of frailty and/or illness, and the darkness of death awaits us. We are here for a day.

I think looking at photos helps us gain a bit of perspective. This is find more here

Contentment Tool #1 – Search the Heart

06/16/2015contentment, Summer Challenge 2 Comments

post153graphicContentment – is it elusive? Sometimes I think that the minute I experience the breathtaking view of contentment in one area of my life I take a step backward and fall off a cliff into the pit of discontent in another.

Ugh! Climbing out is not always easy either because it means I have to acknowledge that the repugnant attitude of grumbling, gossiping, whining and complaining is continue here