5 keys to contentment

Our house has been a very quiet place over the last 4 days. Ben is in Birmingham with Anna and of course Chloe went back to Kent on Friday. I have spent most of the time in bed and I am feeling better for the rest. I did manage the hoovering yesterday and was getting on quite well until the hoover broke! I don't think it liked the quantity of dust it had to hoover up! The hardest thing has been to get my head around the creeping back of the RA. I have been so fortunate to have had very little pain over the last 4 years once the drug kicked in and stopped the progression of the disease. Even my mastectomy was coped with just on paracetamol. I think this maybe another learning curve on my adventures with contentment. It is so much easier to be content when everything is going well - how much harder when life doesn't go our way! 

Interestingly the Mayo Clinic suggests the following for finding contentment 

• Invest in relationships
• Express gratitude
• Cultivate optimism 
• Find your purpose
• Live in the moment. 

Obviously for me I would add invest in your spiritual relationship with God.  Spend time in prayer and praise to the creator of the world. This is all wise advice and interestingly is what I think I have been learning in the past 4 years although I haven't put it so eloquently. 

So  today is a new day - a new sunny day. So I will venture outside (K - I will have a dose of vitamin D), finish the hoovering (my wonderful man has mended it) and cook a comforting casserole for tea.I will be thankful for all that I can do and live in today trying not to be concerned for tomorrow for it will have enough cares of its own.