Contentment

What does contentment mean?

Where is the "place of contentment"? As I look over my notes from our revival at church this past fall, place of contentment....not having what you want BUT wanting what you have!

I'm in a place of struggle for contentment. we are in the early process of listing our home for sell and looking online for possible homes to look at with a Realtor. And I will say it is hard to be "content". We have a list on "needs", "wants", "would be really nice to have", and a budget :) I'm finding that it is hard to find a balance between needs and wants and stick to the "budget". The world pulls at you so hard. In my notes from the revival, i wrote "don't play the 'I deserve card' with God". As I look at homes, i think we have lived in a 1,000sq ft home for 7 years now....i have "suffered" enough, I NEED, no I deserve this home. Why do I deserve this home or any home for that matter? What is a home anyway and what is the purpose for a home????? My prayer is that I would be CONTENT with a home that gives us a little more space to spread out and at least one more bathroom (4 girls and 1 bathroom will not work in future years :) My prayer is that I would be CONTENT on the house the the Lord already knows and has chosen for us! Looking at homes is stressful. Mark and I are not always on the same page. Our styles are slightly different :) But today I took comfort knowing that this struggle is no surprise to God. Comfort in knowing that God already has the house picked out. Comfort knowing that God knows when our house will sell, when we will find "the house" and when we will move.

GOD KNOWS!!! He is in control not I. What Great Joy and Peace!

Drew is walking, climbing and doing everything a 1 1/2 year old should and would be doing. It is AMAZING to see how much he has grown in the short 7 months that we have had him. We are learning sign language and doing good with it.



In His Time! Worth it ALL! Love the Hess'