Thursday, February 24, 2011

Satisfaction

     I just watched the Orbiter with Chris and I really like what was said about satisfaction. It is really hard for me to be content with where I am and it seems like I'm always thinking about what's next or what I could have done differently in the past.
     Most of my preoccupation with times outside of the present stems from my desire to make the most of opportunities. But in my attempt to live life fully my mind gets in the way. I look to the past at all the things I wish I had done. I look to the future and worry about missing out. Inevitably I miss the present.

10 comments:

  1. Seems like a common theme among all of us. Being present in the present...

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  2. This is an interesting concept. Being satisfied and content...but yet not becoming complacent. Finding the balance alot of times can be a bit challenging!

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  3. It's amazing how much this has caught up with me since having Finnden. Sometimes he'll smile in this particular way or do this funny thing, and you just have this sense that he'll never do it again in just that way again...that was it. And while I'm laughing and hugging him and kissing him on the top of the head my heart also breaks a little as my mind races down the path of his life. I think it takes incredible focus and detrmination to root ourselves firmly in the "now," to pull everything we can from this moment before allowing our minds to click on to the next and past that.

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  4. Agreed. Let's trust God that there are greater things in store for us, and enjoy the 'here and now'!

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  5. Amen David haha "here and now" brother!! that's the beauty of God's timing. I am the same way, Ryan. It's frustrating but we think all along that we are doing the right thing by looking back to improve the future and looking ahead to prepare. So profound. We miss the present right in front of us. I find myself, often, saying "dangit! I just missed that" and then chasing down that past moment instead of looking at my current situation where God can really work and do something.

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  6. i've been having a hard time getting motivated to watch the orbiter episodes, and this definitely helps get me motivated. thanks so much for sharing, ryan.

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  7. word. always striving causes such discontentment in me too. and I definitely struggle with regret because I do things I didn't mean and realize what they are too late... I feel ya on this.

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  8. so true! i find it frustrating sometimes because i know my own tendency to do this and the harder i try not to the more i fall into this pattern.

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