Enough

Merry Christmas!!

Yeah, I know I'm a bit late. I've been a tad busy lately! Between Christmas functions, family visiting and sickness, we've had a very full Christmas season.

Now, here we are: 2015. I've been inundated with emails from bloggers (yes, I read a lot of different blogs!!) about organization, de-cluttering, etc. since just after Christmas. To be honest, these don't really apply to our life right now. I'm not saying that we don't have any clutter and I'm super organized, at all!! It's just that after our house fire a couple of years ago, we just don't have a lot of "stuff".

One day, I'll write a post about our fire. Today isn't that day. I want to write about being content. In this day of social media, it is so easy to look at your "friends" lives and decide that you aren't content with what you have. It's so easy to play the comparison game. You start to think that you aren't enough. What you have isn't enough.

What is enough?

Enough is having a warm place to sleep at night.

Enough is having food to feed your family (even if it is only bean burritos!)

Enough is looking into the eyes of your 4 year old as he looks up at you with love and says "Mommy, you are the greatest Mommy in the whole wide world."

We play the comparison game too much, friends. We all have our blessings, we all have our crosses to bear. Mine is different from yours. Doesn't make it better or worse; just different. And let's face it; we only post the "perfect" pictures on Facebook, don't we? I know I took a bunch of pictures this morning as my boys piled in my snuggly warm bed with me, only to deem them not fit for public scrutiny!

Well guess what? I'm getting off the comparison merry-go-round.

I have enough. I AM enough.

In the words of a song by Francesca Battistelli:

"I don't need my name in lights
I'm famous in my Father's eyes
Make no mistake
He knows my name
I'm not living for applause
I'm already so adored
It's all His stage
He knows my name!"

And I thank my Father every day for all that I have.