How to Find Contentment: Your Inner and Outer Scorecards

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Where do we keep our scorecard? I’m grateful for the blessings we can see: the resources we have, the things we enjoy, the comforts that help us along. Yet I keep coming back to a quieter question: how much peace and joy do we experience within? The inner scorecard is all about contentment. In our Swedenborgian understanding, spiritual life takes shape through the love we put into everyday actions. Our inner and outer lives belong together. So here’s a simple invitation: Let’s spend money on those things that bring people together. A shared dinner. A little hospitality. Something thoughtful that gives people room to connect. I offer my children a challenge to use $100 for exactly that purpose, and I invite each of us to imagine what we can do with the resources available to us. Small things count. As we bring people closer, we give our spiritual values a practical expression and make room for that precious mixture of peace and joy we call contentment.