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    This blog was originally named "Reclaiming Motherhood." I had developed this name because I frankly felt alone. I struggled to find a group of women (specifically moms of young children) who weren't complaining about their lazy husbands or arguing about how to parent children. (My close friends don't fall in either of this category, by the way! :]) The Lord has brought several podcasts, which led to several blogs and Facebook & Instagram pages that have led me to find women I've been longing to learn from. 

    God's been teaching me to be satisfied where I am in life... not where I *may* be in five years. My plans, quite frankly, never work out the way I plan them too; for that, I am grateful. Psalm 37:4 says "Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart." (ESV) When I delight in the Lord, the solitary delight that I find is Him. He plants desires in my heart that He later gives me. The "desires" are never really mine to begin with - they're perfect desires that He's molded for me. Hence the name, My Delightful Journal. 

    Paul uses the analogy of a race to describe the Christian life in Philippians 3:13-14, "Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." (ESV) What am I running so fast for? If I don't keep my eyes upon the ultimate prize, I feel like I'm racing to get some sleep, or maybe that last piece of chocolate cake. Other days, I'm racing to raise the most pristine children possible so everyone can say "Good job!" Some days, I don't feel like I'm running at all because really... I don't like exercise at all. Hebrews 11:6 is why I have to hurry, "And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would raw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him." I actually like the end of the verse in the KJV, "...must believe that He is and that He is the reward of them who diligently seek Him." My reward is nothing more than God Himself, and THAT is enough. 

    My day is full of every distraction possible  - a checklist of chores, tending to children, making meals. All those are subcategories of that one reward that I'll one day receive from my Heavenly Father. So I'm learning to simply "delight." That means delight in the Lord when things are good or things are bad. That means delight when I understand what God is doing or when I don't. That means delight in every tiny moment that He blesses me with. 

    This blog is quite frankly an open journal of how God teaches me to delight and some other little tasks, items, and place that I enjoy and find snippets of grace in. No difference what point of life you're in, I hope you'll find delight in God and some joy in the journey. 

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