Women, their hands loaded with casseroles and hot pots, meandered in and out of the front screen door, letting it slap shut with a bang each time. The men stood with their hands in their pockets, their necks uncomfortably ringed with seldom worn ties. Be sure to stop by and read the wonderful fiction available there! Today's Friday Fiction is being hosted by Beth at Laughing at the Days. "Philip said, 'Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us'.” John 14:8 "I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances." Philippians 4:11
FAITHWRITERS WRITING CHALLENGE FREE
'Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said,“Never will I leave you never will I forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5 But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that." I Timothy 6:6-7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. "But godliness with contentment is great gain. I want to live fully right now and with all the fervor that I usually save for dreams of the future. My prayer is that I will open my eyes wide to see His provision and love for me, and with even greater clarity, to sharpen my focus on His blessings today and soften my focus on what is still to come. I want to trust that His plans for me are also tailor-made and will come about just as He wants them to.in His time.His way.to suit my life the best in these mid years.Īnd that ties into my feelings that I need to be aware to be thankful to feel content for what is here and now and what He has already brought into my life. His love for me is closely tailor-made for this aspect of my life.
And I also feel Him drawing me to Him in a closer and more personal way. What does God have to say about this part of my life? Is He happy with my cruising through these mid years? Has He planned any more adventures for me, or should I be content with this smooth sailing that is going on now? One thing I know for sure: He wanted me to pick up my pen and start writing again and He was perfectly happy to nudge me into it the year I turned fifty! That gives me a sense that He does have adventurous plans for me yet that the excitement and happiness of new things is not totally over in my life.
There are still crisis moments, but they're farther between and not as angst-ridden since I've discovered that hand-wringing just makes me tired! So now the excitement of those early years has given way to a more settled and calm life of just plain living. The decisions of young adulthood (getting married, buying a house, finding the right job) are also in the past. The often frantic, little-boy-raising years are in the past. I have the notion that mindless cruising through the mid-years of my life will mean I'll miss good, but little things, along the way.
Instead, I'd like to become more AWARE of times through the day that I can say, "Thanks for that blessing, God. I don't like the restless feeling of wondering if the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. And I'm beginning to know that being thankful is tied to being content. As I've gotten older, I've realized that I'm spending more time in thinking about being thankful.
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