Content.
Content. Not content.
Content (noun)
A state of satisfaction.
Content (noun)
The process of creating various forms of media that appeal to your target audience.
Hi friends!!!
I’ve missed y’all… it’s been a little while since we’ve caught up. When thinking about what to write about, I’ve had the importance of learning to be content on my heart. Ironically, one definition above is talking about being satisfied, and the other is working to provide for the satisfaction of others. Usually I post on social media 2-3 times a week. I went two and a half months without posting, blogging, or creating content. That was weird for me. I didn’t understand it. During that time, I spent my time in prayer, in work, and learning how to be content.
A lot has been going on. Life has been “life-ing” as people say. It’s been a season of growing, evolving, BUILDING, and trusting. I’ve been working through making a lot of decisions, yet staying still at the exact same time. Learning how to put things in motion, then trust. Learning to walk through doors that the Lord is opening, then being content with any outcome. It’s been good conversations, hard conversations, big opportunities, and opportunities to trust. It's been learning that I don’t have to figure out next semester, next month, next year, next week, etc. All I have to do is bring my heart to the Lord, pray thankfully, and give it to him. Then follow up with being content that HE has me, is for me, knows where I’m going, and trusting his ways are higher and greater than my ways. Being content is one of the BEST places to be.
I’m single. I’m not sure if this has ever happened to you when you are/were single, but during this time of being single, especially at the beginning, people would tell me to be content being single and that it was “the best, most important time of my life.” I mean I had to bite my tongue the 15th time someone told me that. Throughout that time, I found my routine, I found out who I am. I spent a lot of time pouring into my relationship with the Lord. I spent my time doing things I love to do, with me. I got into my routine. I learned new things I didn’t know about me. Now, I can say throughout this time I learned what it truly means to be content. Not just being single. Learning how to be content in everything. Knowing where you want to go and where you want to be, and being content with not being or going there yet. Being comfortable in the waiting.
Yes, as I am writing this I hear how cliché it sounds. Cliché or not, it’s true. I’ve learned there is no sweeter place than content. Being content is a blessing. It’s a place full of thankfulness, gratitude, wholeness, trust, happiness, and faith. I hope that as this world spins faster, demands more, and applies pressure that you would find space to be still and be content. Content does not mean perfect. There are things I want, things I’m working for, things I’d like to change, things I’d like to be doing, and places I would like to go. But I know that the Lord put those desires on my heart, that He sees my heart, LOVES my heart, and above all is working on behalf of me, for me. I’ve found that for me, being content is learning how to step out of the way and let God be God. He can open doors I wasn’t even in the building to walk through. He can do abundantly more than I can ask or imagine, I have to trust he will and be content with that.
Xoxo,
Mo
