Contentment….

I saw this Instagram photo that Judith Hanson Lasater posted about contentment. This really spoke to me- especially at this time of year. The stores are filled with people making purchases, hoping to buy happiness. We spend hours planning activities, meals, and ways to spend time with family and friends… all to chase joyful moments down, and photograph it, to prove that we are happy. But how many of those times bring true contentment? When we chase contentment down, hoping to grasp it and keep it, it usually slips away.

What if we were to feel into and recognize our own true contentment? It is not by chasing it, but by coming into a stillness and gently inviting it to bloom. Here is the secret: deep down, we are already content. Under all of the busy-ness, we are, at our essence, filled with contentment… Yet, ironically, we can’t recognize this truth to our own contentment, because we are frantically trying to find it by doing more, when it is just the opposite that is true. It is time to undo. It is time to steep in the deep stillness of being and allow the true recognition of real contentment to arise.