{"id":6240,"date":"2024-02-13T20:36:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T02:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6240"},"modified":"2024-02-13T20:36:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T02:36:27","slug":"contentment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6240","title":{"rendered":"CONTENTMENT ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Repeat from 2-19-15<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This morning after breakfast, I was sitting in the recliner, drinking my coffee, watching the sun rise, listening to Christian music, trying to let the words soak in and lift out my worries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found myself dreaming of building my log cabin, with a sunroom outside the bedroom\u2014a place to relax and enjoy the beginning of the day, warmed by the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I realized once again that most of my thoughts of contentment revolve around someday when I get such-and-such done.&nbsp; And many of those projects are so slow in coming that they rob me of peace for today and contentment right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I thought of a Bible passage, and I will close with this.&nbsp; I want it to sink in and let God work in me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlthough the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lord God is my strength, and He will make my feet like deer\u2019s feet, and He will make me to walk upon my high places.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repeat from 2-19-15 This morning after breakfast, I was sitting in the recliner, drinking my coffee, watching the sun rise, listening to Christian music, trying to let the words soak in and lift out my worries. I found myself dreaming of building my log cabin, with a sunroom outside the bedroom\u2014a place to relax and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-financial","category-inspire_lifter","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6241,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240\/revisions\/6241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}