Wednesday, 24 August 2022

What is contentment?

 Lately I have heard lots of people talking about contentment and it got me thinking.

First I looked it up in the dictionary;


contentment
/kənˈtɛntm(ə)nt/
noun
  1. a state of happiness and satisfaction.

I also searched what the bible says:


Content; Contentment 

CONTENT; CONTENTMENT

kon-tent', kon-tent'-ment (ya`al; arkeo):

To be free from care because of satisfaction with what is already one's own. The Hebrew means simply "to be pleased." The Greek brings out the full force of the word in 1 Timothy 6:8Hebrews 13:5. Contentment (1 Timothy 6:6) is more inward than satisfaction; the former is a habit or permanent state of mind, the latter has to do with some particular occurrence or object.


So then,what is contentment?

The reality is that I think it is different for everyone. We all find  our pleasure and happiness in different things and that is what makes us all different.

For me these 2 pictures sum up being content


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