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  • Scars, not wounds. – Spreading Contentment #2

    Hi Reader, Welcome to Living Contentment Weekly. Here are your three contentment-related thoughts for today. Something for you to: read | do | pray This is our second week looking at the impact we can have on the contentment of others READ THIS I have a faint scar in the middle of my forehead. I…

  • Blind Helping the Blind – Spreading Contentment #1

    Blind helping the blind Hi Reader, Welcome to Living Contentment Weekly. Here are your three contentment-related thoughts for today. Something for you to: read | do | pray READ THIS There was no newsletter last week as we took some time off as a family. One of the things that occurred to me…

  • Content in the face of impending doom

    Impending Doom – Maundy Thursday Hi Reader, Welcome to Living Contentment Weekly. Here are your three contentment-related thoughts for today. Something for you to: read | do | pray READ THIS Church traditions that follow a more liturgical calender recognize today as Maundy Thursday (not…

  • Mountain Top Experiences

    Mountain Top Experiences

    Mountain Top Experiences Hi Reader, Welcome to Living Contentment Weekly. Here are your three contentment-related thoughts for today. Something for you to: read | do | pray READ THIS Many of us know what it’s like to have ‘mountain-top experiences’ with God. Some moment when we feel…

  • Surrender Guest Post #3 – the long game

    Hi Reader, welcome back to Living Contentment Weekly. This week is our third installment from my friend Greg Sund on SURRENDER. If you haven’t grabed a free copy of his e-book ( paperback here) – give it a try for a much deeper dive into true Surrender. So here’s Greg with this week’s view of…

  • Keep Surrendering… – Living Contentment Weekly

    Keep Surrendering… – Living Contentment Weekly

    Hi Reader, Welcome to the SECOND special edition of Living Contentment Weekly. Once again, Greg Sund is sharing on surrender and contentment. (link to a free copy of his book at the bottom of this email) This week he’s comeing to us from rural Uganda. So – again – here’s Greg with his views on…

  • Surrender…. Living Contentment Weekly

    Surrender…. Living Contentment Weekly

    Surrender Hi Reader, Welcome to this week’s special guest letter from my good friend Greg Sund. Greg his wife Stephanie have been great friends of ours since we first landed in Africa 8 years ago – and I can say my life is better for having him in it. Today – he is sharing the…

  • Many Bad Works – One Good Fruit – Living Contentment Weekly

    Many Works – One Fruit Hi Reader, Welcome to Living Contentment Weekly. Here are your three contentment-related thoughts for today. Something for you to: read | do | pray READ THIS Most of us are familiar with the passage from the Apostle Paul’s letter to the church in Galatia: But the…

  • Remember…..you will die -Living Contentment

    Remember…..you will die -Living Contentment

    Remember – You Will Die Hi Reader, Welcome to Living Contentment Weekly. Here are your three contentment-related thoughts for today. Something for you to: read | do | pray READ THIS Memento Mori Latin – “Remember death” Not exactly a pick-me-up St Jerome – Caravaggio 1605 But to be…

  • what about the hard times?

    what about the hard times?

    Hi Reader, This is not a regular Living Contentment -but just a quick update. As many of you know, a very personal struggle for my family and me has been (still is) trying to find God’s goodness, mercy, justice….and trying to find contentment as we suffered a violent, armed attack in our home…