SATISFACTION!

Remember the infamous Rolling Stones song “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction”? Well, God’s girls are a lot like that song…sometimes we just can’t get no satisfaction, no matter how hard we try.

Most of that stems from feeding into the world’s misguided sense of what life should be, and if you are not living according to that agenda then you are not living. I live on the East Coast of the USA, and we get the four natural seasons. I’m also bombarded at the beginning of each season with the new and improved or you just gotta have this in order to feel that life is good. Right now it ranges from, renting summer homes at the shore, new deck furniture, a new spring wardrobe, redoing your bedroom, planning your garden and getting your bathing suit body ready for the summer…ahhhh! But what if you can’t buy a new wardrobe this year, and your deck will still be filled with last years mix matched plastic furniture? You would love to plant flowers but you are barely stretching your dollars for your food bill, so that is out of the question too. What if there’s the likelihood you won’t be going on a family vacation because you have to scrimp just to spend a day at the shore? Will this mean that life is not good? Will you feel like you “Just can’t get no satisfaction” because your funds are low and it seems everyone else can do and go but you?

The house I’ve been renting for the past 4 years is really very nice. In fact it was gutted and revamped right before I moved in. Friends of mine own it, and have been a great blessing in allowing me and Tovah to live here. And when I saw how big my bedroom was, I was as happy as a little kid at Disney World! But there was a catch…the street was too noisy for me to sleep in there. Here I had this huge room where I could have my queen sized platform bed again, and a slew of other stuff. Three large windows that form a bow and new laminate floors—but I still couldn’t live in this room!

There are two other bedrooms in the house but one of them is really a closet with windows and I had turned it into a walk-in closest and ironing room. Tovah’s bedroom is large also but I couldn’t swap out bedrooms with her because hers had been painted purple just for her. Guess what I had to do? That’s right—make the small closet room my bedroom! It was the only way to get away from the noise. The only bed that would fit was a twin. So I have a night stand, twin bed and bookcase with my TV on top of that. That’s my room! But you know what? I love it!! There is something very nice and warm about it. I still have three windows that take up a full wall and it’s bright and cozy. When I had to give up my master bedroom to sleep on a twin bed, I was disappointed and a little disheartened about the whole thing. But my first night in my new room—proved to be very tranquil. I could sleep and not hear a bunch of noise all hours of the night.

At first there was great satisfaction visually with my huge master bedroom, but the real satisfaction and contentment came in a room I had deem as nothing more than a closet/storage room.

I guess the point I’m trying to make is that we can often find great satisfaction in what we already have. It’s just that we are usually distracted by what is being dangled in our faces as better.

If you’ve been feeling a little dissatisfied with life, maybe all you need is an attitude adjustment and a grateful heart for what you have—more so than what you want and don’t have.

Sisters!! It’s time to be like Paul, “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.” Philippians 4:12 NIV



Love & Hugs
Ponnie


See you tomorrow!