While talking with a loved one this past week, the theme of contentment rounded off our conversation.

Contentment. What a delightful — and yet difficult — state for human hearts to maintain.

Psalm 131 speaks to the delight, of the content soul being like a tiny child drifting off to sweet sleep in his mother’s warm arms. (This is something I also tried to capture in my simple, abstract design today: the crown of the child’s fuzzy hair from above where his head rests against her shoulder.)

Philippians 4:11-13 speaks to the difficulty, of the soul that must learn and choose contentment. As the song says, the ability to embrace humility and find peace in the swirling circumstances of life: that ability is also a gift.

Whether it comes easily for you today or it ends up being a struggle to make the choice, may you find delight and contentment in God’s embrace.