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Enough in Every Season
Finding a way to be satisfied
I am thankful for now — this season of fruitfulness and happiness. I have spent a sufficient number of days in the darkness to be exceedingly grateful for this time in the light. It’s sometimes hard not to worry that the other shoe will drop — not to fear that another storm of my soul is on the horizon preparing to destroy my sunnier emotions. But some days I am fortunate enough to not question my joy or the length of it — to just savor it.
In this, the season of gratitude, I am thankful to have enough. I’ve expended (wasted really) so much time wanting more — more money, security, confidence, intelligence, attention, talent, praise, status, success. Now, I am learning (and relearning, and learning again) the art of finding whatever I possess in the present to be enough — to approach each day and every moment with a grateful heart. Now, I am aiming to be satisfied with whatever I have in every area of my life — even if I also have goals and aspirations to do more, be more, or do better.
The fire helped. In a matter of hours, we lost our home and the majority of our possessions. We spent ten months nomadically living with less — less stuff, less certainty, less space, and much less privacy. Even with less, life was good. We were a bit disoriented, but still happy. We had gotten used to more, but we didn’t…
