Steps to Contentment

An amazing wonderful mentor of mine gave me an index card with the steps to contentment about 10 years ago that I still carry to this day. Not only do I carry it, my husband does too. Contentment is an awesome thing....but I have to admit it's not always easy for me, I must be reminded to be content.

Steps to Contentment
by E. B. Pusey, a 19th-century church leader.

1. Allow thyself to complain of nothing, not even of the weather.
2. Never picture thyself under any circumstances in which thou art not.
3. Never compare thine own lot with that of another.
4. Never allow thyself to dwell on the wish that this or that had been, or were, otherwise than it was, or is. God Almighty loves thee better and more wisely than thou dost thyself.
5. Never dwell on the morrow. Remember that it is God's, not thine. The heaviest part of sorrow often is to look forward to it. "The Lord will provide."

Great reminder, I know right?!?