In one of life's many discussions I shared this thought with a friend a few days ago:
Maybe it's about learning to be content? That is, adopting a love and appreciation for the friends around you and people in your life, and mine. About finding the "good things" people and circumstances bring into our lives. Perhaps it's about taking on a new learned posture in relationships and life that says "I will think before I act." Suppose we loved people for who they are, where they are, and not what we want them to be? What if we became the "Doctors of Empathy" and practiced learned understanding before we jumped to conclusions? What if we first we're still . . . and listened to our hearts?
Perhaps we should practice being more content . . . and learn to be satisfied with, or accept on some level, the things we cannot change.
Maybe we could love and admire what we do have . . . and not be frustrated by passions for the things we want but do not truly need.
Maybe learning to be content is the first footstep on the path of peace.
"Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world." (1 Timothy 6:6-7 ESV)
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