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Just finished uploading a few articles on the PDYM Community website, the first is a goal setting tool from Danny Bowers called G.R.O.W. – the second is In This I Delight from Brian Berry. Here’s a clip from that one … head over there for the rest:
What do you think of when you hear the word “delight”?
If you’re like most people in our society today, you probably think of food products like “Sunny Delight” or “Turkish Delight”- made famous by the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. For whatever reason, it’s just not a word we ever use today. No one says, “Wow, that food was simply delightful”. If you did, people will start talking about you with uncertain concerns about your social intentions. I’m not sure what century in the history of the world did use this word, but I’m pretty sure it was somewhere in the Renaissance, cuz it sounds kinda romantic. It has that onomatopoeia (don’t worry, I had to look it up too) element to it; where it sounds like what it means. Not like CRUNCH does, but more wistful than that.
I think of delight as something you do with a brand new pillow. You know when you’ve had a pillow for a really long time and it’s nasty. Then you go to change the pillow case and you are pretty sure someone has been spilling coffee on your pillow cuz there are stains on it you swear did not come from any liquid in your face and you now must, out of hygiene concerns, burn it for the safety of all humanity. That, and the fact that it must now be folded 3 times to make it thick enough to actually function as a pillow anymore, doom it to destruction. So you go to the store to get a new pillow that is so thick and poofy that you must get help just to shove it into the pillow case and then you feel a sudden urge to take a nap and loose yourself in the new poofiness you have just discovered. That’s delight. It’s the release of the worlds concerns you find while resting in a hammock in a field of flowers. It’s a level of contentment and rest that is a very rare feeling in my day.
According to Mounce’s dictionary of Old and New Testament words, the Hebrew for it is “hapes” and it means to find joy or pleasure in something or someone. There are 70 uses of it in the Bible. Psalm 37:4 is one: “Take delight in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.”
JG
