Category Archives: contentment

Growing Up Content And Without the Gadgets

Posted on May 12, 2013 by eig

I don’t remember much of my childhood. I have faint memories. From these memories I know I was content. I have shared my experience growing up in El Salvador up to the age of 10 with my children and students. Yes, times are different, I get it, but children today have much much more than […]

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The goatee Analogy: We are Never Satisfied

Posted on April 26, 2013 by eig

I like to grow my goatee. I like to shave it. So I did yesterday. It is interesting that at home, my wife and children didn’t even notice. Much the same at school with my students. Few did, then they all told each other and complained. They said they preferred me with a goatee. Yet […]

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Contentment, Gratitude and Humility

Posted on April 20, 2011 by eig

Contentment, gratitude, and humility go together. These three are virtues that are not necessarily exclusive of Christian character, though they are spoken much in Scripture. Having spent eleven days in Perú on a medical mission trip I have seen these three in action and it has reminded of my need of possessing them everyday. They […]

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