Looking back on Thanksgiving and many blessings to count, I am reminded to be content.  What if I were to exchange the words “thankful for” and “content with” in the same sentence as I count my blessings?  I am thankful for food and shelter.  I am content with food and shelter. I am thankful for the work I have to do. I am content with the work I have to do, etc. This is what the song “Contentment” from “The Voice” CD is about. Learning to be content.  To remember life’s blessings and to have gratitude for life’s blessings along the way. To grow in my contentment.

Very interesting that I “happened” to discover today’s reading from L. B. Cowman’s “Streams in the Desert” (edited by Jim Reimann) . . . “Is there any note in all the music of the world as mighty as the grand pause? Is there anything that can touch our hearts like the power of stillness?”  I love meditations on God’s “gentle whisper” that can only be heard when we find that place to “Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10).

A new piano melody has been in the works for a while and is still in process. It will be called “For a Lifetime,” inspired by Psalm 30:5 “For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.” I meditate on this verse when life brings “tears of lament” (from “The Voice” CD). I am encouraged that God’s favor, His grace, bring rejoicing in the morning.