I just started my new job as the host of a luxury homes show here in San Diego. I wondered before I started if I would spend my days in these 10+ million dollar homes and come back to my 2 bedroom apartment and feel...I don't know, discontent, perhaps. Surprisingly I have never been more in love with my family and content with my life. I always would tell God, "If you never give me anything more, I am happy with what I have." Yet deep down inside I knew that was only a partial truth. It wasn't that I wanted something more that was the sinful part, it was the feeling of needing more to be fulfilled.

The day before yesterday we were filming a home that belonged to a Billionaire lawyer right on the La Jolla coast. It took them six years to build the home and they had a nanny for each one of their three children. I could go on for hours about the amenities of this home, but let's just say they had everything both an adult and a child could ever dream of having. When the kids finally got back from school, I thought the first thing they would do is jump in the pool, feed the seals that were right outside on the beach or race to the life size children's beach house. Instead, do you know what entertained them the majority of the time I was there? A paper airplane.

When I watched them playing in the yard with the paper airplane tears started welling up in my eyes. All I have ever wanted after becoming a mom was to give my children what I never had as a child. Material things weren't the only part of that equation, but they were still a part. I have paper airplanes, I thought. I have love, Jesus and paper airplanes...and that is all my children need. I once heard that children spell love T-I-M-E, and it is becoming a reality more and more as I watch Hannah get older and crave mommy and daddy's attention if we have to go to work for the day.

I thought this show would make me want more, but instead it has given me a greater appreciation for what I already have. Paul often mentions in Philippians that he has learned the secret of being content no matter what the circumstances. I often wanted to whisper to Paul, "What's the secret?" I don't know for sure, but I imagine that Paul chose to focus on what he did have rather than what he did not. One thing I do know, is that I have an incredible marriage and phenomenal children and that is worth more to me than all the luxury homes in the world!