I sometimes find I look around and see I have all I need. And it seems not to matter at those times just what it is I have, that such satisfaction may be had with virtually no belongings, or even friends. Sometimes, all it takes is a sunny day, though rain need not dampen one's contentment; sometimes all it takes is a starry night, but you need not be outside to feel the freshness of being. It helps, and in fact it is necessary in my case, that I have my Lord, Jesus Christ. But I imagine even He does not need to be in the equation for some people, that they may be at one with everything (or be at some such mental elevation) without there being a divine intervention at all. Somehow, at these rare times, satisfaction comes at all that you have, and all that you have done. And for a moment, it is enough to just be. I wonder at these times.
I do not know if it is possible to attain these sorts of moments artificially. I mean, to set oneself up for contentment. It seems, rather, an ambient thing, an emergent phenomenon where just these and these gears line up in some sort of special arrangement. I guess it is just the axiom of "smell the roses while there are roses to smell". And if there are no roses around you, the imagination of them, however good, will not be the same. If and when these reflections occur, it is best that you mark them somehow in memory, that you not forget that such blessings do happen in life. I am sure, too, that you will have such times, for I think it not in the design of the world that people are bent continuously in the negative. But remember, when things do go wrong, inexplicably, day after day, that you have seen light before, and it was good. Remember.
JASMINE
2:07am wednesday, 30th june
HI AGAIN.I JUST READ "CONTENTMENT"& I
HAD TO WRITE AGAIN.I FEEL LIKE GOD HAS
GIVEN ME YOUR WORDS TO KEEP UP MY HOPE,
NOT JUST FOR MY SON& OTHERS SUFFERING,
BUT FOR OTHER PEOPLE.YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL SOUL,& YOU'LL BE BLESSED FOR
COMFORTING PEOPLE LIKE ME.I PRINT YOUR
WORDS TO COMFORT ME. I HOPE THAT'S ALRIGHT.YOU FEEL SO DEEPLY, BUT EXPRESS
YOURSELF SO ELEQUANTLY.THANK YOU SO MUCH.A FAITHFUL READER.
JASMINE