Contentment

Subject: Contentment
From: nutty
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 04:12 AM

It's not very often that I feel at peace with the world but this weekend there was a few moments of complete contentment.

I was listening to the wonderful singing and harmonies coming from the Whittlebury barn while watching two very young kittens play in the sunshine outside ........ Sheer magic

Anyone else with moments to share?

Subject: RE: Contentment
From: Paul Burke
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 04:46 AM

Sitting outside Mines Tavern, Laxey, isle of Man, 1985. Drinking Okell's bitter, watching 18 month old Boy gobsmacked by 19th century trams rattling past.

Lying on heather on a warm moonless night in Cape Clear about 1977, the Milky Way like a bright streak across the sky.

Cutting the engine of narrowboat on Tixall Wide, so we could marvel at the spectacular sunset in total quiet.

Eating first meal after being told I didn't have bowel cancer.

Subject: RE: Contentment
From: CarolC
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 04:47 AM

I had that while working out in the garden a few days ago. The temperature was in the mid 70s F with low humidity, and the air felt really beautiful. The birds were making happy noises, the grass smelled good, the garden planties were growing. I felt very content.

Subject: RE: Contentment
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 04:51 AM

Watching the grandbrats playing cricket in the back garden last Sunday, with Robin singing in the background, and the local bell ringers on double shift before the christian evening service.

|Bliss.

Subject: RE: Contentment
From: Megan L
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 04:53 AM

Watching my husband sleep in the recliner , feeling him near me.

Subject: RE: Contentment
From: Newport Boy
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 11:32 AM

Not my contentment - but I felt pretty good when I read it.

Anne's musings on a miserable, wet day in our caravan on the Gower.

BLISS - utter bliss - stocked up with fruit and yoghurt - water full - elsan empty - yesterday's Times and today's Guardian yet to read - have run to the wreck and back and enjoyed it - Philip is coming tonight. Who cares if it's raining? - and it is!!

Phil

Subject: RE: Contentment
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 11:59 AM

These moments are called epiphanies, aren't they? I had one this morning while out walking my little dog.

It's been wet and chilly for days - weeks? - but this morning the clouds were broken and scudding across the sky, the air was warm and had that luminous quality that always seems to portend something profound. (I told a fellow walker that it probably means that we'll have a snowfall tonight. *g*)

A morning like that following a night of scrumptious music is good for my soul.

Subject: RE: Contentment
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 12:32 PM

Several times a year, I have a strongly peaceful moment where all the cumulative blessings seem apparent at once. The grateful thought that comes, spontaneously, at those times is, "If it ended now, this would have been enough. If I went now and never had another single moment on earth, I could say I died happy."

When I go, I hope people will remember that. Of course I want more, but at those moments I'm replete, and relaxedly looking forward to the next step.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Contentment
From: Bee
Date: 30 Sep 08 - 01:18 PM

Sitting on our wharf in the evening fishing with my husband, listening to the thrushes sing across the mirror-calm lake.

Trading songs, and one guitar, back and forth on the deck steps with a friend I'd had a stupid falling-out with, after a complete reconciliation.

Standing in sunshine on the odd little hill in a Cape Breton friends' field, looking across at the darkened Highlands, where a thunderstorm was brewing. Nearer, Goldenrod was glowing and four happy dogs were racing through the hay. I felt transfigured.

Crossing a canal bridge on my way back to old Haarlem, the Grote Kerk looming ahead. I had just gotten my student visa approved for a year, had been accepted by a wonderful school, had confirmed a place to live. I felt lifted, as close to a religious experience as I can claim, I was that full of pure happiness, completely carefree.

Subject: RE: Contentment
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 01 Oct 08 - 06:03 PM

Every morning I look out my bedroon windwow ... whether it is foggy day and I can't see beyond my back yard, or a clear day so that I see out onto the Bay of Fundy, I am extremely content on realizing how fortunate I am.

biLL

Subject: RE: Contentment
From: Wesley S
Date: 02 Oct 08 - 10:18 AM

I had a pleasent evening last night. I was sitting on the back porch, our son was playing in the back yard and the two cows in the field beyond had a very contented look on their face. I think I caught it from them.

Subject: RE: Contentment
From: Amos
Date: 02 Oct 08 - 10:31 AM

I did not go to work this morning. I sat on the front stoop watching the sunrise, and contemplating a long trip to Maryland and three days of Getaway ahead. Life is capable of being very very good at moments like this.


A

Subject: RE: Contentment
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Oct 08 - 11:20 AM

I'm going to Baltimore to look at trains today. Tomorrow, lighthouses - and then a weekend at the Getaway with old friends.
Yeah, that's contentment.
-Joe, in Elkridge, Maryland-

Subject: RE: Contentment
From: alanabit
Date: 02 Oct 08 - 06:20 PM

Cuddling one of my children to sleep.

Subject: RE: Contentment
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 01:36 PM

It is rare to both fine and dandy at the same time.

Stay warm Joe.

Subject: RE: Contentment
From: Joe_F
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 10:10 PM

Contentment, for me, is 60% resignation & 40% consolation.

Subject: RE: Contentment
From: maeve
Date: 04 Oct 08 - 05:41 PM

One expression of contentment from the Shakers:

ODE TO CONTENTMENT Trad. Shaker

Come contentment lovely guest,
Reign unrival'd in my breast.
Thou alone wilt do.
Thou alone canst fill the soul,
Ev'ry passion canst control,
Shen the stormy billows roll,
Thou canst bear me through

From this thread

Subject: RE: Contentment
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 11:38 AM

Sufficiency.

Subject: RE: Contentment
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 06 Oct 08 - 02:03 AM

When I compose, and play..I do so, as a expression of love and gratitude to my Lord, and usually I hope for his acceptance, that what I did, with the gift He gave me, meets with His approval. Early this morning, while playing a string suite, unto Him, I got that approval, and acceptance from Him. At that, I was content.

Subject: RE: Contentment
From: Megan L
Date: 06 Oct 08 - 04:13 AM

My mum used to say contentment was having enough to keep a roof above your head, a fire in the hearth and food in yer belly.

Subject: RE: Contentment
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 06 Oct 08 - 06:52 AM

In August 2000, 24 hours before moving with the family to the UK from my previous posting in Greece, I bit into a crusty hunk of bread and knocked a top canine tooth out of kilter; it was now pointing outwards, into the inside of my cheek. It was a Sunday. No dentist available. I travelled to the UK on Monday, took delivery of the household stuff on Tuesday, and only on Wednesday could I start to look for a dentist. In the end I gave up looking for an NHS dentist and went private. Simon (the dentist) looked at it and said "do you want to save it? there is a slim chance if we push it back into place, but at your age, the chances of re-taking root are very small". I just said to him "take the bastard out, I've had enough of it, and sod the anaesthetic, just pull it". He did.

The sense of relief was such, that I got an endomorphine high, I couldn't drive for half an hour and I was giggling for half an hour.

Content? I was ecstatic!

Not what you were looking for, nutty, but sometimes delivery from pain can be a blessing too, and many other problems can pall compared to the resulting sense of euphoria.

Subject: RE: Contentment
From: Bee
Date: 06 Oct 08 - 08:56 AM

Here's what I suspect was one of those supreme contentment moments. Two warnings: video. have tissues close by if you ever loved a dog.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=147_1223108811

Subject: RE: Contentment
From: Partridge
Date: 06 Oct 08 - 03:18 PM

didn't have any tissues...............wah sniff