how to enjoy things you don't have.

I was thinking today about things i don't have, not too many, but things I think i need. It doesn't matter a whole lot because, regardless of how i feel, I don't have them. It occurred to me, I can fret and try to find a way to get those things, and soon enough they will be critical, bare necessity things, or I change my feelings. I can enjoy that I don't have them. That sounds absurd. How do you then enjoy "them"? Do you switch gears and enjoy things you have? ...not exactly. It is important to be grateful for things we have, but I think what I'm talking about is disassociating "enjoyment" from things. That's difficult, but if you can say, "Well, today I don't have what I want. Oh well," then maybe you can detach yourself and find satisfaction in something else. Maybe you can "enjoy what you don't have." I recognize this is a bit abstract, but take for example me. I don't have a job. Soon I will need a job. If I don't have income, I can't enjoy Whole Foods. It must be noted that I derive enormous amounts of satisfaction from food, good whole foods. It almost bereaves me thinking I can't go get something as simple as sweet potatoes and spinach to cook a delectable meal. I need to find a job...but today, right now, everything is fine. I'm eating spinach pasta at this moment. So, "how" do I maintain perspective right now? I enjoy that fact that I don't have a job with something I do have. Writing. Later I will enjoy driving the Mercedes that's sitting in the driveway, as I go and look for work...to pay for other things.

Not until we do have absolutely nothing will we inextricably sense that living is not about things. Think Corrie Ten Boom. It is about why we are living, and you can find that in Colossians. ...And the Who? is also called Love.