Sunday thoughts

I love our church.  I know I have said it a hundred times here probably but after going to huge churches or even not going at all, it is refreshing to me every Sunday the time I spend there.  It usually just flies by.  Now I have 2 of my kids in Sunday school, so with only one to entertain during the sermon, I actually get to hear more and hopefully soak up more. 
Today a couple of things struck me.  Our pastor talked about the dry periods in our life.  The periods where we don't hear from God regularly or feel very close to God.   We probably have all been in those periods of life, but I guess what struck me is that it is normal.  I always feel when I am in that season, that something is wrong with me.  That I am not doing all that I should be doing to remain on fire for Jesus.  It just made me feel better knowing that we all go through it.
The next thing was about contentment.  Now I don't think these 2 things were the pastors' main points but they are the snippets I gleaned.  The verse was Hebrews 13:5 "Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have.  For He Himself has said, 'I will never leave you nor forsake you'."
I guess I have been having the "wants" lately.  You know...I want a new mattress (mine is 15 years old), I want a screen door, I want a newer/faster computer.  It is really easy sometimes to get caught up in it.  You see people buying the newest/latest things and your flesh wants to as well.  At least this is one of my struggles and something I am convicted of often.  This verse is a good reminder for me.  But not only for the contentedness part but that He will never leave me nor forsake me.  That is a pretty powerful statement and one that is good to remember in the seasons we are dry and in the seasons we feel close to God.