{"id":9211,"date":"2018-05-09T15:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T21:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=9211"},"modified":"2018-05-05T15:30:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T21:30:45","slug":"be-contentsee-the-wonders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/be-contentsee-the-wonders\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Content\u2026See The Wonders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cEverything has it\u2019s wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.\u201d<\/span> \u2013Helen Keller<\/p>\n

Feeling content\u2026.that\u2019s a concept I struggle with because I have always found that not being content with things as they are has been the great motivator for me to try harder, to do more, to set bigger goals and accomplish more meaningful things.\u00a0 However, there is a great lesson to be learned from what Helen Keller said. And I think understanding Helen\u2019s words is key if we want to have a sense of peace in our lives.\u00a0 The contentment Helens speaks of isn\u2019t about not progressing or setting big goals\u2026the contentment she speaks of is about accepting there are going to be circumstances we cannot control and we should appreciate that those are as they are to help us to learn. And in spite of those circumstances Helen proved with her life\u2019s example that even with limitations beyond our control, we can still accomplish incredible things and live a life filled with wonder.<\/p>\n

I love that she said she \u2018learned to be content\u2019 in whatever state she was in because it shows that being content \u00a0with difficult things wasn\u2019t just something that instantly happened to her \u2013 she had to learn how to be content. I guarantee she went through times of frustration and struggle early on dealing with those limitations she had to, but the fact is she didn\u2019t get angry and bitter \u2013 she chose to make the very best she could of the circumstances she was given\u2026.and that allowed her to see all those wonders that life has to offer.<\/p>\n

Have a wonder filled day!<\/p>\n

~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cEverything has it\u2019s wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.\u201d \u2013Helen Keller Feeling content\u2026.that\u2019s a concept I struggle with because I have always found that not being content with things as they are has been the great motivator for me to try harder, to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17520,17530,898,8835,14465,395,1964,17512,4833,550,3522,9453,17524,17515,17528,724,17514,17527,1679,8832,55,8290,464,17526,17516,17523,17525,17521,770,274,17518,17517,17522,6271,17513,17519,1439,16768,17529],"class_list":["post-9211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-life-of-fulfillment","tag-accept-what-you-cannot-control","tag-acceptance","tag-accomplish-great-things","tag-achieving-greatness","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-angry","tag-be-content","tag-bitter","tag-blessed","tag-blind","tag-choose-to-be-happy","tag-circumstances-we-cannot-control","tag-darkness-and-silence","tag-deaf","tag-dumb","tag-everything-has-its-wonders","tag-find-meaning-in-life","tag-frustration","tag-glorious","tag-happiness","tag-helen-keller","tag-joy","tag-learn-from-your-struggles","tag-learn-to-be-content","tag-learning-curve","tag-life-is-filled-with-challenges","tag-make-the-best-of-things","tag-motivational","tag-motivator","tag-nothing-can-hold-you-back","tag-overcoming-adversity","tag-progressing-one-step-at-a-time","tag-see-the-good","tag-see-the-wonders","tag-sense-of-peace","tag-struggle","tag-things-turn-out-best-for-those-who-make-the-best-of-the-way-things-turn-out","tag-wonder-filled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9212,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9211\/revisions\/9212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}