Delighting in whatever is lovely (Philippians 4:1-9)
Can we notice what is true and noble, even when it is also ordinary?
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I have been reading Ross Gay’s wonderful essay collection The Book of Delights. It is a kind of shared gratitude journal that Gay developed from a single and simple goal: “Write a delight every day for a year.” For Gay this project made noticing, naming, and sharing delight into a discipline and a practice. The result is a delight-filled book that gives time and space for writer and reader alike to sit with the holiness of sunshine, the wisdom of a cat meme, and the unexpected beauty of a father weeping at a corny movie.
