cat calls

how easy for you is it to delight in the Lord?

i feel sick to my stomach thinking about how easy it's been for me as of late. so i ask myself why i feel sick, or why i feel like it's been so easy... the answer i come up with is that life is incredible right now. i feel like i'm where i'm supposed to be, spending time with people i'm supposed to, doing what i'm supposed to be doing, and hitting wide open gates of favor at every turn. i don't want for hardly anything, and i'm provided for, loved, and cared for well. like really well.

so is it easy for me to delight in the Lord because i feel like he's blessing me in the ways i've always wanted to be blessed, or because i believe at my core that he is responsible for these blessings? either way i'm brought back to bumpy ride on top of a mini bus in haiti; throwing candy into the road for kids to chase after. candy pieces flying, kids screaming, women jumping out of the stream they're bathing in to run naked down the road after us for some measly pieces of candy. that was the highlight of their days. maybe their years. maybe their lives.

but i've mentioned it before... they have this happiness that emanates from them - even outside the context of being given candy, food, necessities. they had all the symptoms of persons who delighted in the God that blessed them with life, but in a place where that life - just being born - feels more like a curse than a blessing at times. a life filled with need. but i know, that i know, that i know God is delighting in them as much as they are him. he delights in the fact that they look to him to fulfill their needs.

J.P. de Caussade said, "all he wishes is to be the sole object and only enchantment of our hearts." when there's not much more to be enchanted with, the gospel is pretty dang fine option.

so do you love your life and delight in the one who gave it to you, despite its many flaws or "not-the-way-i-saw-it-happening's"? or are you single and all you can think of is a love life? are you poor and all you can think of is more money? are you rich and all you can think of is a break to enjoy what you could actually afford?

"instead of living lives we savor, we are in danger of living superficial, sound-bite lives that we barely notice." - edward hallowell

so make the long hair of your life wavy and luscious and put on your tightest pants and walk the metaphorical streets of washington heights, if you will. live a life worthy of head-turning and be confident in not only who you are, but who made you that way.