Finding Contentment

Henry David Thoreau moved into a shack by Walden Pond to enjoy the contentment of living with little. His experience was immortalized in his book, Walden. During the Great Depression, many people had such a life imposed upon them when they lost everything and were forced to live in poverty.

Now, few of us retreat to live in isolation by a pond, and most of us, we hope, aren’t going to live through the economic disasters of the Great Depression. But all of us struggle with achieving contentment in our lives.

St. Paul suffered great persecution throughout his life, yet he wrote, “I have learned to be content.” True contentment is adjusting what we want to fit what we have, instead of trying to adjust what we have to fit what we want. Have you, like St. Paul, learned contentment? It can change your life!

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