Contentment is a rare grace today. Finding men and women who truly submit to and delight in the will of God is like getting a breath of fresh air. Frances Ridley Havergal is one of these fresh breezes among the pages of history, and today we’re going to consider her example of true contentment.
When Frances was only eleven, her mother passed away, and the little girl shed bitter and mournful tears. “I did not at all expect her departure,” she wrote in later years, “and shut my ears in a very hardened way to those who tried to prepare me for it; so when it came I was not ready, and there was nothing but bitterness in it to me. I did not, would not, see God’s hand in it, and the stroke left me worse than it found me.”
Haven’t we all felt the same at times? Trials will wreck us rather than strengthen us if our trust is not in the Lord. Until her conversion at age fourteen, Frances struggled spiritually. But at last she was found by the Savior Whom she came to love. “Then and there,” she wrote of her conversion, “I committed my soul to the Saviour. . . . I did trust in the Lord Jesus.” This was the first step. And after that, we begin to see this beautiful character of submission to God’s will grow and thrive. Let’s look at a few of the ways it was displayed in her life. | 
