A Lesson in Contentment

The picture is terrible….but the metaphor wasn't.

As I took a moment and watched the sheep graze on the edge of our city, Fresno…. I noticed how little they looked up.  Their contentment surprised me. A picture in my mind began to emerge.  I saw myself, a sheep, eating and unworried.  I noticed myself beginning to pray…."Jesus, these your sheep don't worry about anything.  But I worry about everything.  Lord, these sheep don't question the care of their shepherd because they see his grace in ever blade of grass abundantly provided.  But I question Your provision (stupid, I know, Lord) and some days feel blind to the daily bread you're providing."

God, keep teaching me how to be your sheep…..content and unworried under the care of my Shepherd.
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These random pictures have something in common

Life feels random

No two days are exactly the same

Different experiences with different people

...shape the world around us, making it, and us, different.

But then, a few pictures, taken on different days 

made me think:

if life's only constant is change...why do these pictures all look the same?  

BECAUSE...

When life's experiences are always changing....our experience of those changes can remain the same

Like Elizabeth, getting over her "fear" of the cold snow.  And now...content.

Like me, totally content with a daughter in one arm and skis in the other.

Like Heidi, content with her fun new haircut with bangs.

And my buddy Karl.  So happy that I took him to a Canucks game.  Wait...that's not right...those were his tickets.  OK, whatever.  But you get the point. Content with Karl.

Every day is different.  But we can experience every different day with the same contentment (yes, even in seasons of sorrow) of yesterday and tomorrow.

These are good days....

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