How blessed is one who is contented, who loves his home, his church, his community, his work, and his associates, and who has a proper respect for himself! It is plain that true contentment is a quality of consciousness and is not contingent upon material conditions. We have all known those who have little in the way of material benefits and yet are rich in contentment.
When through Christian Science one learns to know God, divine Mind, and man's true nature as God's infinite expression, one experiences contentment. Lasting contentment can be gained in no other way. Satisfaction is the goal of all mankind, but to be attained it must be sought in Spirit. We read in Psalms (17:15), "I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness."
When we awaken to an understanding of man's unlimited, spiritual selfhood as the image of God, good, we find dissatisfaction dissolving. With a realization of the truth of being, an unutterable glow of peace and contentment floods consciousness, eliminating a sense of inadequacy and incompleteness. This change in consciousness is then manifested in outward improvement.
