Tell me something… what makes your spirit feel alive? Do you thrive on success and accomplishment? Do you ignite with thrill and risk? Perhaps quietness and rest makes you feel alive. As I walk day by day, I am coming into a place that makes me feel alive. It is actually feeling content. It is easy for me to want to get to the next stage in life, or achieve the next milestone. I often have not grasped one, before I am already thinking of the next. It becomes a mad race getting to the next phase of life. What I am learning for myself, is that being content makes me feel alive. Why? It is a place of balance for me. Contentment  means having no fear of the unknown or what comes next for me. It is intertwined with trust, that I am right where I am supposed to be in life. Sure there are more adventurous situations that light a fire to my awareness of life. Yet, the one that brings the right balance for me, is being content with where I am at. Letting go of fear and hurriedness. Enjoying the exact moment I am in and contending that it is the perfect place to be makes me inhale life for all it is. Tho some of those moments may be painful and some joyous – they all have their rightful place at their destined time to shape me into all I can be.

Philippians 4:11-13 (NIV)

11 I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. 12 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. 13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

Feeling alive does not require my hands to be empty or full. It requires my heart to be aware; that whatever the situation, God is with me, He loves me, He provides, and He gives me strength. Feeling alive for me, means that I am content in a state of happiness, fulfillment and peace knowing that everything is as it should be.

∼live your journey true∼