On Being Content...

Our cell group at Seeds is spending some time discussing money...our goals & dreams, along with what the bible says about it. Last night we had another week of chatting on money and a new concept occurred to me.
I had always seen being content as just that, a state of being. What I realized for myself is that being content is much more a discipline than a way of being. Here's how I saw this for myself:
Overall, I feel like I'm a pretty content guy. I have everything that I need...and more. But my mental tendency is still to want that which I don't have. When the thoughts & desires of wanting more come to mind, I have begun to speak the line "I have everything that I need".
This process is a discipline for me as it does not come natually. What I hear around me and what I feel inside me do not resonate with the line "I have everything that I need"...but my heart knows it to be truth. So instead of having arrived at a place of contendedness it's much more a come & go affair. My hope is that I'm able to stay in that place more often than not...