““Waiter,” I said, in an exuberant mood, “I have a perfect life, but I don’t have a knife.””
— Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander, The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
We must keep reminding ourselves that our culture depends upon people being unhappy, dissatisfied, and fearful.
Dissatisfaction and fear is the fuel that drives our consumer economy.
Like the relentless ocean waves that roll up on the shore day after day, we are inundated constantly with the siren call that tells us we are missing out on something.
We are promised over and over that it will be the next thing that will make us happy and satisfied.
And of course they’re lying.
It would be disastrous if we became happy and satisfied and stopped buying more and more stuff, chasing the next clickbait, and feeding the algorithms that craftily tease us with the next “must-have” temptation.
Friend, it takes a lot of discipline, character, and courage to – gasp! – be content.
Are you up to it?
The ONE THING for today: Don’t make a fuss today. Don’t chase the latest and greatest. Don’t complain, compare, and criticize.
Do choose to be content.
Do believe that your Father GOD desires what is best for you and will provide it.
Do choose to trust Him to give you your daily bread believing it will be far more satisfying than all the addictive sugary and empty substitutes the world is trying to foist on you (for a price).
It’s called peace.
Lean into it.
The ONE THING 