What do you delight in?

What do you delight in?

Is it buying something new for your house? Do you delight in fresh baked cookies, warm from the oven?

When it comes to people, I greatly delight spending time with family and friends.

But when thinking about things, I delight in the sight of terra cotta pots, empty on the shelves. My eyes widen, I hold my breath, and my heart catches in my throat. I have quite a nice collection of pots on the shelves in my little corner of our garage; nothing fancy, but a variety of sizes and many aged with moss.  I do not know if I delight in just the pots themselves or the promise of beauty yet to come; that which I so hope for as spring nears and warm breezes melt the snow.

But flower pots are, after all, just worldly goods, and I know that they break easily.

The pots will not last forever.

But my relationship with Christ will, and I so delight in this knowledge.

I delight in spending time with Him, sitting at His knee in prayer

or in reading his Word. I delight singing His praises.

I delight in sharing Him with others, especially with my grandchildren.

It is when I delight in Him and spend time with Him that I have all my heart desires,

for the rest ~ family, home, love and contentedness come from this.

"Delight yourself

in the Lord,

and He will give you

the desires

 of your heart."

Psalm 37:4

The photos in this collage come from my Tumblr  blog, except for the lower left photo, which is from Apartment Therapy.