Summit After the Storm | Leadership, Faith & Resilience Podcast
Oct 28, 2026 · 6 min · 5 segments
**I spent most of a school picnic trying to win a cake, only to discover it wasn’t even the cake I thought I wanted.** Earlier this month, Noah’s school had an evening picnic. Hamburgers. Chips…
We watch from a distance and the farther away we are from it, the easier it is to imagine, if I could just get that, then I'd be happy.
But sometimes we finally get close enough and we realize we were chasing a picture in our head more than the real thing.
Philippians 4.11 says, I have learned to be content, whatever the circumstances.
And I think part of learning contentment is recognizing how often our dissatisfaction comes from what we think we're missing.
Sometimes the thing across the room looks better simply because we don't have it yet.
Sometimes we spend so much time watching someone else's cake table that we forget to actually enjoy what's already in front of us.
What are you building up in your mind right now? What are you convinced will make everything better if you could just get it? Maybe it really is something good.
But maybe it's also worth asking, am I wanting the real thing or the version that I've created in my head? Because sometimes the thing we think we're missing isn't nearly as perfect as it looks from across the room.
We watch from a distance and the farther away we are from it, the easier it is to imagine, if I could just get that, then I'd be happy.
But sometimes we finally get close enough and we realize we were chasing a picture in our head more than the real thing.
Philippians 4.11 says, I have learned to be content, whatever the circumstances.
And I think part of learning contentment is recognizing how often our dissatisfaction comes from what we think we're missing.
Sometimes the thing across the room looks better simply because we don't have it yet.
Sometimes we spend so much time watching someone else's cake table that we forget to actually enjoy what's already in front of us.
What are you building up in your mind right now? What are you convinced will make everything better if you could just get it? Maybe it really is something good.
But maybe it's also worth asking, am I wanting the real thing or the version that I've created in my head? Because sometimes the thing we think we're missing isn't nearly as perfect as it looks from across the room.
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