July 13 Quote

"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.”   
              Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days

    Someone once said that true contentment comes from learning to want what you have already been given.  Keillor is saying something along those lines.  We live in a new, improved world in which billions of dollars are spent every year to make us dissatisfied with what we have and who we are so that will buy the next new thing.  Contentment may take a little luck under the circumstances.
      Or I suppose faith might not hurt either.  The apostle Paul figured it out, as he suggests in the fourth chapter of Philippians:  "I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength."