Contentment

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Nine Requisites for Contented Living:

1. Health enough to make work a pleasure.
2. Wealth enough to support your needs.
3. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
4. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them.
5. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.
6. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor.
7. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.
8. Faith enough to make real the things of God.
9. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

And Jay's addition to this list.

Friends enough that you can care and be cared for.

Hugs, j-bear

P.S. When I went to see Dr. Peter yesterday (Annual check-up) I got weighed. I am down another 9 pounds since I saw him last! Also blood pressure is good. So we can also paraphrase # 1 above. Health enough to make retirement a pleasure. (and it is!) Hugs again, j