I have much. Very much. A safe, clean home with electricity. A pantry and freezer well-stocked with nutritious food. A closet filled with clothes for any situation and season. A family who is healthy and has access to quality medical care. In fact, based on my husband's salary as Associate Pastor at our church, we are in the top 99% of the world's wealthiest people. Is it wrong to have much? I don't think so ... I think it's wrong to be had by much. I look around at all I have and realize ... [Read More]
Working toward Contentment
That drive to be productive with our time was put there by God ... Although we work to fulfill earthly needs, we should work to bring honor and glory to God, who is the Creator of work. ~ Vonette Bright As I've begun this journey back to a contented life, I find myself being reminded time and again of simple principles I had let slip away. This one, foundational to this blog and in my life, is vital: All things for Christ! Rooted in Colossians 3:23 - Whatever you do, work heartily, as for ... [Read More]
Book Review: One Thousand Gifts
"Do not disdain the small. The whole of life - even the hard - is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole ... There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments add up." from One Thousand Gifts Yesterday afternoon I shared my the beginning of my journey back to contentment. Circumstances, situations, Scripture, devotions, sermons, conversations, and that general sense of, "How ... [Read More]
The Journey back to Contentment
"Contentment doesn't happen automatically. It takes an act of the will to decide to respond to life in a godly manner." ~ Vonette Bright "A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit." ~ Proverbs 15:13 I have been living with a crushed spirit for the past several months ... lots of situations and words - big and small - have weighed on my heart and mind, gradually overcoming me. I've let it happen of course. Allowed those hurts and sorrows to take root ... lost ... [Read More]
Remembering Nana Jo
Today we will celebrate and remember a life well-lived. My step-grandmother, Joann, passed away Sunday, November 7th. The first time I met Joann, she smiled the warm smile she always had, and offered me tuna fish, made - in her own words - as close as she could to the way my own Mema (who had passed away a few years before) had made it. She was a gracious, kind, generous person and though many miles separated us, whenever we spoke on the phone it was as if we had no distance or time between ... [Read More]
Construction Zone: My Heart
March 6, 2004 My son, obey your father’s commands, and don’t neglect your mother’s teaching. Keep their words always in your heart. Tie them around your neck. Proverbs 6:20-21 Lord, thank You for placing so many amazing people in my life to guide me and encourage me in my faith. My family and Scott’s family … so many others – pastors, teachers, friends … Help me take deep within my heart the truths they have taught me and lived out in front of me. ~ Amen. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ So many have been ... [Read More]
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