Learning Contentment: A Study for Ladies of Every Age

Just finished leading a Ladies' Bible study based on this book. The chapters were the perfect length and breadth for busy women of all ages - just like the title says. Every Christian woman can benefit from this book. Don't let the shortness of it deceive you. It's packed with excellent thoughts, worth every page! Thank you Mrs. Wilson!

This is an excellent book to read if you are discontent! In a world that has been turned upside down, I have found that I am more discontent than I have ever been. I was looking for help and specifically a study I could complete on this. The book has helped me to see the root of my problem of discontent. The thought provoking question at the end of each chapter have really made a huge difference in my life. I am so very hopeful that I truly can learn to be content in ALL circumstances with my eyes on God! Thank you so much Nancy for writing this book!

I really enjoyed this like book, I feel like she packed a lot of great content into an easily manageable size (especially for a busy mom such as myself!). She's direct in her points but not unempathetic, and the questions at the end of the chapters are solid food for thought for either group or individual studies.

I can’t recommended this enough. Every chapter was filled with so much information. I enjoyed every word. Have your bible prepared so you can dig deeper into the word. 10/10 recommend!!!

A wonderful book on contentment. I have learned so much from this little book. Nancy has a wonderful sense of humor sprinkled around the nuggets of wisdom.

Something we all could use some guidance on, I think. A good book.

Love this book absolutely recommended it. So much rup learn from and understand from it.

This is a good, practical reminder of an oft-neglected Christian virtue. It will be a help to all who take a few minutes to read it.

This was the best book I have read in a long while. It was simple yet profound in its explanations of discontentment as well as its practical applications on learning and practicing contentment.

I loved this as a personal study and think it would be so easy to follow along with a group as well (the questions at the end of each chapter would make for great discussion). I highlighted many quotes and paragraphs and found it to be a quick and simple yet powerful little book!

Just finished leading a Ladies' Bible study based on this book. The chapters were the perfect length and breadth for busy women of all ages - just like the title says. Every Christian woman can benefit from this book. Don't let the shortness of it deceive you. It's packed with excellent thoughts, worth every page! Thank you Mrs. Wilson!

This is an excellent book to read if you are discontent! In a world that has been turned upside down, I have found that I am more discontent than I have ever been. I was looking for help and specifically a study I could complete on this. The book has helped me to see the root of my problem of discontent. The thought provoking question at the end of each chapter have really made a huge difference in my life. I am so very hopeful that I truly can learn to be content in ALL circumstances with my eyes on God! Thank you so much Nancy for writing this book!

I really enjoyed this like book, I feel like she packed a lot of great content into an easily manageable size (especially for a busy mom such as myself!). She's direct in her points but not unempathetic, and the questions at the end of the chapters are solid food for thought for either group or individual studies.

I can’t recommended this enough. Every chapter was filled with so much information. I enjoyed every word. Have your bible prepared so you can dig deeper into the word. 10/10 recommend!!!

A wonderful book on contentment. I have learned so much from this little book. Nancy has a wonderful sense of humor sprinkled around the nuggets of wisdom.

Something we all could use some guidance on, I think. A good book.

Love this book absolutely recommended it. So much rup learn from and understand from it.

This is a good, practical reminder of an oft-neglected Christian virtue. It will be a help to all who take a few minutes to read it.

This was the best book I have read in a long while. It was simple yet profound in its explanations of discontentment as well as its practical applications on learning and practicing contentment.

I loved this as a personal study and think it would be so easy to follow along with a group as well (the questions at the end of each chapter would make for great discussion). I highlighted many quotes and paragraphs and found it to be a quick and simple yet powerful little book!

Loved this book. Very easy and enlightening read. Will probably read it again.

We just don't deserve anything just hell, but our merciful God gives us abundantly. This little book pierces the heart and gives hope to the soul.

A good book to help you learn more about being content with your life.

This book is so precious. It really feels as if Nancy is scooping you up to mentor and teach you how to live the good life that God has for you. I am so thankful to Nancy for the wisdom and sweetness that spills out in her writing. Read this book, I know it will bless you.

It's embarrassing to think you are fairly content only to learn how discontent you truly are. This is a must read and reread for women and men. Somewhere she says something like, " We are meant to learn contentment, it doesn't just happen to us." I like that. Go and do.

Lovely! Came so fast!!!

Almost done. The material isn't anything I am mindblown or am thinking of later in the day. Kind of bland.

Many advice on how to be content. I’m using this book for the whole year to work on my character. Highly recommended!

It may sound like escapism or far from reality and practical life, but the truths that Nancy is reinforcing in this book are becoming more and more urgent for women to study and remember of!

Book was the one I was looking for. It was new as described. Happy with the purchase.

A very practical and easy read, with short chapters and application questions at the end-perfect when I don’t have much time. Cuts strait to my discontented heart and offers encouragement and wisdom.

Encouraging book by Nancy Wilson! Read for a book club, everyone loved it and benefited from the biblical, practical content.

I loved this. So well put and written. Really made an impact on my heart about my own state of discontent.

I can only say “Thank you” this has been an amazing journey through these lines. This books just changed my life.

Well done. It will land in my top 20! I bought several for some friends. It can be used as a devotion - reading over and over.

I liked this book. While I don't feel that contentment is a major struggle for me personally, I still really benefited from reading it. Contentment brings the peace that we all need from the stresses and worries of life. I'd recommend it to anyone who is alive (and probably over age 3). I'm actually not sure why it's even marketed specifically for women.

I would recommend this book to everyone. It has great points and the questions at the end of the chapter are thought provoking!

Nancy lays out, through Scripture, a call and a guide to practice contentment by trusting in the will of God. Like any discipline or habit, contentment is a godly characteristic we can develop for our peace and His glory. Written in a format that makes it very useable for a study group.

Wilson's book is a refreshingly no-nonsense, practical, and encouraging read. Wilson has gleaned much wisdom from Scripture and from great spiritual thinkers/authors from time past and has taken that wisdom and written a very readable book for "ladies of every age." I especially loved her simple adjurement to "look to your duties." Instead of discontentedly mulling over all our difficult circumstances and paralyzing ourselves with fear, anxiety and more discontent, Wilson enjoins us to take actions (duties) to actually learn to be content, not just when our troubles are resolved, but even (and especially) in the midst of our troubles. These actions/duties are in line with setting our minds on things of the Spirit (Romans 8:5). They can be as simple as making dinner or praying for a friend - basically just faithfully getting on with our daily work, whatever that may be. Make it a point to cultivate gratitude in and for every situation. In doing these simple things, we are obeying God and taking the necessary and life-altering steps toward learning contentment. I so appreciate the encouraging reminder throughout Wilson's book that through God's grace and with the strength of Christ, we don't have to allow our difficult circumstances to dictate our level of contentment. What a liberating truth! Her book has been both helpful and convicting, giving me many good things to mull over!

Review for Learning Contentment, by Nancy Wilson This is a great book on contentment. "Contentment maintains control over the spirit and does not allow ungoverned passions and unrestrained emotions to bring discomposure right at the moment when the greatest composure is called for". Mrs. Wilson sets out important principles in a simple to understand manner. As the title implies, contentment is something to be learned; it takes practice. "Discontent is a deep displeasure at what God is doing. It is a refusal to thank God for what He has done and what he is owing. Discontent is ingratitude, and complaining and grumbling and murmuring are discontent's ugly sisters, and God hates them all". It is a 'petri dish' for a lot of other sins. Mrs. Wilson encourages us to 'learn contentment' by identifying areas of discontent and confessing each to God and being thankful for what He is doing in each of these areas. We are encouraged to not go "dumpster diving" digging through unlovely, impure, unkind things. We are to replace these thoughts/things with things that are lovely and praiseworthy and this takes practice and daily submission to God. Contentment "teaches us to read the story that God is writing with the eyes of faith". This will change our perspective, and although not easy, we have God's promise "never will I leave you; never will I forsake you", and "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me". This was a great encouragement for me and I think many will be blessed by this short book.

I read this book in an hour and a half after a friend praised it. Discontent disguises itself magnificently as stress, fretting, anger, perfectionism. Two weeks before I read this book I wrote a poem about the discontent I had discovered in my heart. But I was afraid to do something about it. To accept that I would have to let go of things that I was never given to control. As I began reading this book I felt my heart fighting against what Nancy Wilson was saying. I had to pray to God that he would soften my heart and help me to receive this lesson of contentment. Immediately he calmed me, and taught me. Two weeks later, I think of the precepts in this little book on most days. They remind me when circumstances are overwhelming and I think I'm losing control of my surroundings, that the only chaotic thing is my heart. Wilson writes in a gentle way--not as someone who has mastered contentment, but as someone who is still learning. If you are struggling to be content, I hope you will read this and see what God might teach you.

This book was picked for me as part of a women's group I'm in. The whole thing was full of things we should be doing and thinking. Nothing I haven't heard elsewhere and nothing that was helpful. It wasn't a good use of my time to read this book. I wish I could get my time and my money back.