contentment

as a christian, i am called to be content with the things i have been blessed with (whether i would label them blessings or not). God has given me a spirit of contentment and for the most part I truly am content...i really do lack nothing of a material nature when it comes right down to it.

i have a very small kitchen, but it serves its purpose well and it doesn't hurt me in the least to walk upstairs to the spare bedroom to retrieve a bundt pan when i need one, or to dig through a tub on the porch to find the right tupperware container. i wouldn't want to have a kitchen like this one for the rest of my days, but i am content.

my husband and i are building a home, if God wills it, in the course of the next year. designing the kitchen has been a very sticky point in the process. why? we are trying to stay away from being discontented in our final design. we don't want to be in the house and say, "i wish we had done this different." but really...how is it that the contents, or lack thereof, in this new kitchen could tempt me to discontent when i am already content in a far inferior space? i've decided the answer is my "control" over the situation.

right now, i know that the kitchen is what it is, and that this is where God has me. and as i trust Him with my life and all the essentials and nonessentials of it, i have no reason to be disappointed. myself...well, i can totally second guess myself and my decisions. i guess that's why i need to trust God and the wisdom He has given me, even to make decisions about a kitchen...then I can see it as where He has me and hopefully, by His grace, be content.