Vanishing Virtues-Contentment

Two little teardrops were floating down the river of life. One teardrop asked the other, "Who are you?"
"I am a teardrop from a girl who loved a man and lost him. But who are you?"
The first teardrop replied, " I am a teardrop from the girl who got him."
Life is like that. We cry over the things we can't have, but we might cry twice as hard if we had received them. Paul had the right idea when he said in Philippians 4:12, "I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation..."
May I ask a personal question? What is the one thing that keeps you from experiencing happiness? Is it financial? Is is something in your professioanl life? Or could it be a relationship problem? Could you be happy if you don't get what you feel you need to have a contented life?
Contentment isn't denying one's feelings about wanting and desiring what they can't have, but instead is exhibits a freedom from being controlled by those feelings. Contentment is knowing that God is in control and is bigger than any problems we encounter.
If we have Christ, we have everything we need.