No, I don't need a four course meal in a fancy restaurant. The one course meal in my home will do just fine.
I don't covet more space than the apartment I have. It has enough room for my husband and my three boys. I happily call it home.
I don't need a brand new car, more clothes in my closet, or more art to fill my rooms. I really do have enough. I am blessed.
God has blessed me.
It's not that I am unambitious. I want to serve in church. I want to do well at the job that I have. I want to be a good, kind mother and wife.
My head is still turned by beauty of all sorts. I stop and stare at the beauty around me at least once a day.
I hope to keep being asked to do meaningful work that matters to me. I hope to write another book, teach more lessons, craft more stories.
I hope to grow (by depth as much as breadth) my circle of friends.
God has blessed me.
Plenty of longings continue to tug at my heart--but they don't break it. Not anymore.
I've dreamed of traveling to far away places. Do I have the energy to do it?
I don't covet more space than the apartment I have. It has enough room for my husband and my three boys. I happily call it home.
I don't need a brand new car, more clothes in my closet, or more art to fill my rooms. I really do have enough. I am blessed.
God has blessed me.
It's not that I am unambitious. I want to serve in church. I want to do well at the job that I have. I want to be a good, kind mother and wife.
My head is still turned by beauty of all sorts. I stop and stare at the beauty around me at least once a day.
I hope to keep being asked to do meaningful work that matters to me. I hope to write another book, teach more lessons, craft more stories.
I hope to grow (by depth as much as breadth) my circle of friends.
God has blessed me.
Plenty of longings continue to tug at my heart--but they don't break it. Not anymore.
I've dreamed of traveling to far away places. Do I have the energy to do it?
Is something like this out of reach?
Every now and then I wonder what it might be like to have a tiny place in the country to get away to. It's a nice thought. It's even better when someone else gives you the keys and say, "Go ahead and use my place!"
There are dreams and ambitions still inside me. Some of them I am still working towards. I have let go of many of them.
Finally, after years of wanting, seeking, striving, and yes, a little envy now and then--I'm learning to love not just my gifts, but my limits.
God has blessed me.
There are things I cannot do. May never do. Things I don't currently have, and may never have.
I could focus on these and become unhappy or resentful, or I could consider how those limits have focused and redirected me, refining my desires and my heart for the better.
I could choose to glorify God by loving my limits and living to the hilt--with what I have now and nothing more.
"In order that life should be a story or romance to us," wrote G. K. Chesterton, "it is necessary that a great part of it, at any rate, should be settled for us without our permission. The thing which keeps life romantic and full of fiery possibilities is the existence of these great plain limitations which force all of us to meet the things we do not like or do not expect."
I am kept from some things, and lacking others.
I have Him, and this life that he has given. And I am certain I will never come to the end of the fullness of either.
"He makes peace within your borders; he satisfies you with the finest of wheat." (Psalm 147:14)
Every now and then I wonder what it might be like to have a tiny place in the country to get away to. It's a nice thought. It's even better when someone else gives you the keys and say, "Go ahead and use my place!"
There are dreams and ambitions still inside me. Some of them I am still working towards. I have let go of many of them.
Finally, after years of wanting, seeking, striving, and yes, a little envy now and then--I'm learning to love not just my gifts, but my limits.
God has blessed me.
There are things I cannot do. May never do. Things I don't currently have, and may never have.
I could focus on these and become unhappy or resentful, or I could consider how those limits have focused and redirected me, refining my desires and my heart for the better.
I could choose to glorify God by loving my limits and living to the hilt--with what I have now and nothing more.
"In order that life should be a story or romance to us," wrote G. K. Chesterton, "it is necessary that a great part of it, at any rate, should be settled for us without our permission. The thing which keeps life romantic and full of fiery possibilities is the existence of these great plain limitations which force all of us to meet the things we do not like or do not expect."
I am kept from some things, and lacking others.
I have Him, and this life that he has given. And I am certain I will never come to the end of the fullness of either.
"He makes peace within your borders; he satisfies you with the finest of wheat." (Psalm 147:14)
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