Delighted

Delight is what you experience when something greatly pleases you. When you are delighted, you feel great pleasure.

Now, doesn't that sound just lovely?

I am absolutely delighted when I have a butterfly cross my path in greeting as I venture to my local park on my walk. Seeing a mocking bird on a top-most tree branch, trilling in a way only he can do, delights me. I stop and smile, thrilled with the joy that erupts with his sweet sounds.

I am delighted when my grandboy says a new word or laughs heartily, needing to catch his breath or when he takes steps and knows he's a big boy when he does so.

Delight finds my heart when I am laughing with my family because someone says something unexpected. Those are the best moments.

I experience delight when I see something that is vibrant and colorful; and then I want to paint it.

My art journal delights me since it gives me the opportunity to put my soul on the page, choosing whatever color suits me at the moment, stamping a meaningful word/message, and designing to my heart's content. And it lifts my spirit all at once in a way nothing else does.

My written journal often delights me when I can describe something fabulous I experienced or a great idea I've just come up with that excites me.

My connection with Spirit is a great source of delight to me; I am often surprised by the sense of humor, the relaxing elixir God's presence and powerful energy becomes to me. I don't take that for granted; it is a gift to my soul.

What delights us speaks worlds about who we are and what really matters to us. What delights us can often trigger delight in another; and when that happens, a relationship/friendship is sometimes created due to the resonation of what we love and why.

When we focus on what delights us, either by being in the moment of that delight and relishing it fully, or telling a friend or loved one about that delightful experience we had, or by writing it down so we can relish it in the re-telling and even in the re-reading at a later time, that delight becomes something that we carry with us, that becomes a part of us deep in our hearts.

Which only sets the stage for more delight, for more deep understanding of our authenticity, our creativity, our purpose.

Pay close attention to what delights you.

As the Professor in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe once said to Peter and Susan, brother and sister in the story, when they came to speak with him about Lucy: "Why, I am absolutely Delighted to be interrupted. Otherwise, life would only be work and study, no FUN at all."

Don't forget that what Delights Refreshes.

© 2013 by Dawn Herring