My word of the year is PEACE. I seek the peace that encompasses simplicity, contentment, thanksgiving, appreciation, patience, tranquility of the soul, and conformity to God’s Holy will. I seek peace not as the world gives.
There are many reflections that I will be mediating on this year to help me grow in peace. G.K. Chesterton offers great reflections on contentment.
Content ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased; placidly, perhaps, but still positively pleased. Being contented with bread and cheese ought not to mean not caring what you eat. It ought to mean caring for bread and cheese; handling and enjoying the cubic content of the bread and cheese and adding it to your own…
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. The absence of this digestive talent is what makes so cold and incredible the tales of so many people who say they have been “through” things; when it is evident that they have come out on the other side quite unchanged. A man might have gone “through” a plum pudding as a bullet might go through a plum pudding; it depends on the size of the pudding–and the man. But the awful and sacred question is “Has the pudding been through him?” Has he tasted, appreciated, and absorbed the solid pudding, with its three dimensions and its three thousand tastes and smells? Can he offer himself to the eyes of men as one who has cubically conquered and contained a pudding?
In the same way we may ask of those who profess to have passed through trivial or tragic experiences whether they have absorbed the content of them; whether they licked up such living water as there was. It is a pertinent question in connection with many modern problems.
~ G.K. Chesterton (The Contented Man)
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2014 Motto
These words are imprinted on my heart. Perfection is not sought. My goal is only to move closer to Him and do His will.
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Word of the Year Posts
2013 – NOW | 2012 – Pray | 2011 – Charity (LOVE)
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Linking up with Sarah at Amongst Lovely Things for Weekends with Chesterton...
