Delighting His Heart

OK, as I write this post I still haven't left for my cruise.
But I've been thinking about getting home. And my tendency to want to do too much, too soon. And my need to slow down - lest I become a stressed mess.
Which is why I have made an executive decision regarding the operational happenings here at Surviving Motherhood. That is, even though my vacation is over and I'm back home and have acccess to my computer and the internet, I am taking one more day to share a post from the archives. Because I know myself well enough now to know it would be better for my spirit (and everyone around me!) to not rush back into blogging while I'm trying to get my house back in order. (and laundry done, and menu made, and groceries purchased...)
Having said that, I have chosen a post from the "Slowing Down" category which I originally wrote on November 20, 2015. May you also be inspired to slow down today.
P.S. A second part of that executive decision is that I won't be posting anything tomorrow. Planning to be back to "normal" with a video Monday. I'll see you back here then!

So, Tuesday morning when I was sitting at the table pouring my heart into Wednesday's post, I had no idea God was going to speak to me through my own words.
I was typing as quickly as my fingers and mind would move. Not really editing my words, just letting my thoughts flow. And I wrote, "I want to delight His heart." If you read that post, you know my mind was thinking about doing. And the immediate motivation behind my statement was that I wanted to be doing things which would be a delight to my Father's heart.
But as I typed those words, and re-read them on the screen in front of me, God took me back some seven years to a couple of missed flights, an unplanned hotel-stay in Tampa, and a day of lay-overs in the Atlanta airport. You see, God used that messed-up, inconvenient, perfectly-orchestrated, totally-not-the-way-I-planned-it circumstance to show me that we can delight His heart by simply being with Him. That we don't have to be saving the world, finding a cure for cancer, establishing world peace, or really doing anything in order to delight Him. He just loves to be with us.
In fact, He used that crazy incident to inspire a new retreat topic which I called, Delighting His Heart.
Yes, I have taught women all about this beautiful Truth, which I somehow managed to forget in recent weeks. Oh, for the goodness and patience of God!

So for the past couple of mornings I have found myself cozied up on my couch with my new prayer journal. (Got it for free when I pre-ordered a War Room DVD on Monday. *smile*) I haven't been discovering the answers to our current world crisis (Though I've prayed about it.), nor have I created a solution to personal concerns surrounding me. But what I have done is this: I've contemplated God's amazing grace. That He would choose me - a broken, stubborn woman who didn't even know she needed Him - and would save my desperate soul. I have wondered at His love for a lost world, and marveled at His power to bring forth justice and peace in His perfect time. I have given God praise and the glory due His Name, and surrendered again to trusting Him.
Oh, I haven't done much of anything. But I have been enjoying His presence. And it has been wonderfully, absolutely, completely delightful.