Content no matter.

I am preparing for the big 5k (well, big to me). Carole and I went on an extra long walk this morning. My knee was hurting on Wednesday and because of the 5k on Saturday, I was hesitant to run. We decided to walk up Mount Baldy. Jen, you know the hill. I couldn't believe it. I just sailed up the hill with hardly a second thought. It was good to see such progress in a year. We walked and talked. Carole always makes me laugh and she gives me food for thought.

We walked into a new neighborhood where they have million dollar homes. I was thinking that this is how the other half live. I was thinking that the folks coming to our home on Saturday may think the same thing and we are the poorer half. I easily fall into those thoughts and I am ashamed of myself. More house, more money required and lots more maintenance. I wouldn't be able to stay home with my children and watch them grow. I wouldn't be able to teach violin because I would be working at the hospital. Life would just be bad. I wouldn't be able to do what God has put ME on this earth to do. Thank goodness for my modest, beautiful home. More importantly thank goodness for my healthy family that I so love. Thank goodness for my friends and family who love me no matter what I live in.

St. Paul wrote "I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content".

May ALL of us learn to be content.