E.B. Pusey, an Anglican pastor, gave the following guidelines for growing in contentment:
1. Allow thyself to complain of nothing, not even the weather.
2. Never picture thyself under any circumstance in which thou are not.
3. Never compare thine own lot with that of another.
4. Never allow thyself to dwell on the wish that this or that had been, or were, otherwise than it was, or is. God Almighty loves thee better and more wisely than Thou dost thyself.
5. Never dwell on the morrow. Remember that it is God’s not thine. The heaviest part of sorrow often is looking forward to it. ‘The Lord will provide.’
-Elisabeth Elliot, Secure in the Everlasting Arms
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