Word for the Week

 Contentment

From a Dictionary search online: "Contentment is the state of being happy and satisfied. ... If not, have another piece of pie and then you'll feel contentment. Contentment isn't an excited kind of happy, it's more like a peaceful ease of mind. It's being satisfied with what you have, whatever that is."

This is a hard one for me. Is it for you?

I have thought for quite a few years about being satisfied with enough. Do I havc enough things or adventures? Do I have enough in my tummy? Am I loved enough? Am I content with what is in my world?

When I look at the world just in my neighborhood and then look to other places in the world, can I accept the way things are and be content where we all are? I worry often for people that are suffering. I want the world to be a peaceful, loving place yet we cannot change the world, but only how we perceive our world around us.

Can I stop and just smell the flowers?

Yes, I have many questions on this word, more than answers. 

From the Christian bible it says, Philippians 4:11-13 Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.

“I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.”
― Henry Fielding  

“At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

Can I sit still and allow the contentment to come? 

I don't mean this to be negative, but this word is sometimes a struggle for me.

For today I will sit in the garden, smell the flowers, sip my tea and let the world struggle to figure it out without me trying to fix anything.