Delighting

I have been walking regularly at the UW-Green Bay arboretum the past couple weeks, and I enjoy it a great deal more than sidewalks. I highly recommend it unless you are afraid of snakes. I have seen three of them since last Monday. They are just garter snakes, minding their own business. I am not really afraid of snakes, but they always startle me at first glance. Then I am irritated with myself for being such a baby. Once I get over the initial shock, I like to watch them because they are pretty interesting. If I could just stop shrieking like a girl!

I attended the Beth Moore event last weekend. As usual, when God wants me to hear something He keeps repeating it. Before my walk today I picked a card out of one of those little Bible verse collections I have sitting on the kitchen counter. Sure enough, Psalm 37:4-5. "Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this..." So I have been pondering that and was delighting myself in the Lord on my little nature walk. I even tried to be delighted about the snake. One of Beth's points was that behind the desire of our heart is the heart of our desire. All the things I desire are based on a deeper longing. I am still figuring out both the surface and the deep stuff, and the only way to get there is delighting in the Lord.