How contented are you?
On a typical day, if you take a few moments in the evening to look back at the day that is nearly over, do you feel more content or discontented? Are there more things you are happy about and grateful for, or more relationships and events that you feel dissatisfied with?
Here is how that great teacher of life, St Paul, wrote about this to his disciple, the young bishop Timothy:
“Godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of this world. But, if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into a temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.” (I Timothy 6: 6-10)
You will have known people who are deeply happy and positive, while possessing very little, and others who have much and are never content.
Fr Joe Mannath SDB
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