Learning to live a life of contentment
“Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them…” Matthew 6:26
Every Wednesday morning, at 6:00 a.m., come rain or shine, I open my laptop for a Bible Study with a couple of buddies via Zoom. Even Bible studies are done this way, during this time.
We get together to study scripture, but inevitably, we get to talking about life and share family updates. The three of us guys, roughly in the same age category, once worked for the same company until life took us to different cities and states.
Getting together this way made me think about what brings people together, things like common interests and shared experiences, and yes, even pandemics.
Between verses and our hypothesizing of what God is meaning to tell us, we open up about what is challenging us, what we fear, and the anxieties that fill our lives on what seems like a daily basis. And after hearing all this is, sometimes it makes me feel like we put most of this on ourselves.
Think of the farmer, in a tiny rural village, in a foreign country, who seemingly knows one thing — farming. His dad and grandad were farmers. His children are learning to be…
