Delight

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.  

Psalms 40:8

The unknown is always soooo difficult.  The unknown is where the words worry, doubt, anxious, nervous all come from.  I have faced these words quite a bit over the past year.  I probably faced them numerous times before but wasn't aware enough to recognize them.  A wise friend told me that when we are feeling these words, we are not feeling God.  These words and feelings come from Satan.  When we have these feelings and hear these words we need to cast them away.  Give them to God - He will take them from us.  It comes back to trusting and our Faith.  

Not an easy task all the time.  The knot forms in my stomach, the constant spinning goes around in my head, and the lump in my throat that contains the worry doesn't always just disappear.  But when I really try.  When I really focus on Peace, Joy, Happiness, and Delight, that lump does disappear.  The feeling is absolutely amazing!  That Peace that we can only fully receive when we have given our complete Trust and Faith in God is the most amazing feeling!!  

I chose the word delight because my wise friend had given me this word a few weeks back.  Last year she had given me the word BLISS, and this year she sees my world as DELIGHTFUL.   

Delight/Delightuful

High degree of gratification;  joy;  extreme satisfaction

Highly pleasing

As I was looking at the definition, I found it fitting that one of the synonyms for delight is BLESSED.  I love scaffolding my lessons in the classroom, and it's even more amazing when they naturally happen; I guess Blessed and Delight were meant to be together!

I will live my life to the highest degree of gratification!  Naturally, we are human so there will be tough days, but to lump it together with the word DELIGHT instead of the ugly words I mentioned earlier?  Talk about extreme satisfaction!  

I challenge you today to think about what it takes in your life to live to the highest degree of gratification?  What will bring your life extreme satisfaction? 

I will work on my list today and post tomorrow...Instead of the icky knot in my throat I have excited bubbles in my tummy! :) 

Heavenly Father, Thank You for this day.  I will continue working on giving you my worries and focusing on the Delight in my life.  I Thank You for all the delightful things you have given me.  Please shine that delight onto others.  Show us all of the gratification you have given us.  Amen