Two on contentment

Learning to be content
1.
Learning to be content,
To deal with change and
To be content,
Requires a lot of lessons,
Individual assignments,
And, sigh, discipline.
Learning to be content
Requires remedial work
At times.
Learning to be content
Calls for directing
Short term and long term goals
With/within God's parameters.
Learning to be content
Requires coming to grips with
And being gripped by
God As Sovereign,
As my Sovereign.
Learning to be content
Requires being conformed
To Him.
2.
Learning to cope with change
Requires commitment to
The Changeless One, and to
The Word given by
The Changeless One.
Learning to cope with change
Requires knowing and being known by
The Changeless One,
Learning requires a willingness to admit
I don't know/and to learn what I am, even if it is not
What I prefer.