Shauna Niequist is a delight aficionado, and she has these words to say about it: “Delight isn’t escapism or unwillingness to face reality—it’s acknowledging both aspects of reality. Delight is the balance to exhaustion, despair, and numbness. Delight doesn’t fix what’s broken, but it gives us the fuel to keep going even in the brokenness.”
That’s life to me. A mixed bag of delight.
It’s a delight feeling Julia’s fingers around mine as she walks around the living room. I’m also excited for her to walk on her own.
It’s a delight to be disciplined, and also to indulge sometimes.
It’s a delight to do the simplest of play with Anna. It’s also a delight to witness her playing by herself with her own imagination.
It’s a delight to have clothes to fold and dishes to wash (truly), but it’s also a delight when John does it for me. ;)
It’s a delight to carry the responsibility of stewarding two little hearts, and Woah, is it the hardest work.
It’s a delight to choose rest, and sometimes it’s boring and I don’t want to do it.
I’m realizing lately just how thrilled I am to not be the One who holds all things together. I get to be the humble one, the one who can hold the tension of desire and trial without having to solve it. I get to be the child, in any state… curious, confused, content… held always in the stronger grasp of God.
Hallelujah.
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