If you could be anyone else, who would you be? Someone famous? Someone important? Maybe the person you just passed on the sidewalk? It might not even matter; if you could be anyone else, it would be an improvement.

I’ve found that when I’m at rest—waiting in traffic, doing the dishes or riding the train—my mind often wanders. Thoughts about the person I want to be, or the life I want to live, often circulate in my head. Can you relate?

Maybe you daydream about what life would look like if you had taken a different career path, like your friend who recently landed her dream job with a Fortune 500 company. Or maybe you wonder if you would be happier if your family situation was more stable, like your coworker who has more family traditions than you can count.

In his novel “The Great Divorce," author C.S. Lewis describes these feelings of discontentment by using a metaphor of two make-believe countries.  

In the “Greylands”, one of the countries, there is little sunlight or fresh air—only a grey haze that fills the streets and creeps through the homes. It’s damp, poorly lit and the structures are difficult to distinguish one from the other. In fact, people often wander into its maze—like streets never to return. It is a hollow place where the inhabitants move obsessively from building to building thinking, “If only I could could get that house across the street, things will be different!”

Wishing you had someone else's life is a lot like that.

You spend so much time wandering and getting lost in a maze created by your own lack of satisfaction. But no matter how many versions of yourself you dream up, nothing seems to help you find your way. At the end of the day, when you’re wearied from the journey, you’re still wandering through the Greylands, searching for a new, better building.  If you feel restless and discontent today, here are four Scriptures that are a reminder of the peace, hope and contentment found in God.  

1. Philippians 4:11-12 (GNTD)
   And I am not saying this because I feel neglected, for I have learned to be satisfied with what I have. I know what it is to be in need and what it is to have more than enough. I have learned this secret, so that anywhere, at any time, I am content, whether I am full or hungry, whether I have too much or too little.
2. Isaiah 26:3 (GNTD)
   You, Lord, give perfect peace to those who keep their purpose firm and put their trust in you.
3. Matthew 6:33 (GNTD)
   Instead, be concerned above everything else with the Kingdom of God and with what he requires of you, and he will provide you with all these other things.
4. Psalm 34:10 (GNTD)
   Even lions go hungry for lack of food, but those who obey the Lord lack nothing good.