Unraveled

If only…two words when put together can create such great weight…”If only I could feel completely myself…I see different parts of me in the different places and people I am with.” “If only I could make it past this season in my life, the next season will be so much better.” “If only I could have a job that makes me happy.” “If only someone loved me.” And the list that follows “If only” could continue on and on and on…but why do we place contentment as the end result of this list? If contentment lay solely at the end of all the “If only’s”, my dear friend I must in truth tell you, you may never find it. Though you may check some of those things off your list as soon as they seem complete…another soon will pop right back on, and thus becomes a vicious cycle. Contentment in the world is fleeting; if you try to find contentment there you will spend the rest of your life chasing after the wind. We all long to be content and we may daily try to master being in this state. All the minutes, and all the hours, and all the days I have tried to find it…I would continue to fail. Until the moment I realize (and this moment is actually continual moments) the only thing I can honestly grasp onto in my life is who I am in Christ and who He is to me…the moment He becomes my EVERYTHING, will be the moment I truly know contentment. It erases all those “If onlys” and replaces them with “In Christ” because it is in Christ alone that we may find contentment…Our CONSTANT contentment. Your life may seem unraveled, but dear friend you may just be out on the line needing to be pulled back in - to be wound tightly around Him…for of Him and through Him and to Him are ALL things! You are not alone and He who began a good work in you is faithful to complete it! In His love Anna