Matt Reynolds :: Learning to be Content :: 10.17.10
If you feel like “enough is never enough” and even your holy appetites seem to never be fully and finally satisfied, it might be time to learn something from Solomon. Throughout Ecclesiastes, Solomon commends us to enjoy life, receive God’s gifts, and be empowered by the One who makes our life count.
Maybe contentment is not so much something to be attained, but something that must be learned.
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Matt Reynolds :: Learning To Be Content :: 10.10.10
18Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one’s labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward.
19Furthermore, as for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, He has also empowered him to eat from them and to receive his reward and rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God. Ecclesiastes 5:18-19
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Buddy Hoffman :: Fathers Day :: 06.20.10
Breathe in – do you feel that air moving past your lips, down your throat, filling your lungs? Without that breath, our brain begins to die within three minutes. When was the last time you used that exhaling, life-giving breath to just say “Thanks”? “Thanks for breath, the last one and the next one.” If it’s been a while, do it with that next breath.
One of those gifts is being a father; the flip-side of that gift is having a father. The heart of that truth is the teaching of Jesus to His followers, which pointed us to this amazing attribute of our Heavenly Father: “Ask, and it will be given, if you know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!”
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