For Learning to Delight Again

Ask

Take inventory. How easy does experiencing joy feel today? Possible? Impossible? What simple pleasures might you sip from, as a refuge in the shadow of God’s wings?

Reflect

Read Mary Oliver’s poem, “The Summer Day” and reflect on her question: “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” What do you think Mary Oliver would suggest doing?

Pray

God, let the smallness of this place become a refuge for me, a resting place under the shadow of your wings, so that just for a moment I might awaken to delight once again. Lord, thank you, that even the tiniest of pleasures tell me a gorgeous story about you, and about your love. Amen.