Being content is a great feeling. Sometimes it’s hard to be contment because we always want more, more, more. It’s especially difficult to be content during hard times. In “The Purpose Driven Life” Rick Warren gives us lessons in contentment.

Lessons in Contentment
by Rick Warren

I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. Philippians 4:11 (NIV)
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A woman got off work and was driving home. She was stressed out and just wanted to go home, be all alone with quiet and relax in a bubble bath before her husband came home and wanted dinner.
She had a lot to do for work, all of the pressures were getting her stressed out, her [...]

I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may also be.
-John 14:2-3

Why art thou downcast, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted in me? Hope thou in God: for [...]

My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you.
- Isaiah 26:9

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Matthew 5:8

For the first day of this new year, remember that God gives new beginnings. Sometimes things don’t go the way we want. Sometimes we have painful losses. Sometimes relationships don’t work out the way we want.
But there is hope as long as we have God and ask God. God gives us new beginnings. God can [...]