Obligation or Delight??

Good Monday Morning,
Did you enjoy your weekend? I am wondering where Spring is? We did get out all our little tomato seeds in their bit of dirt. They are all sitting in our bathroom window sill area soaking up the sun.

We vacillate back and forth from rain and mud in the garden to freezing weather. Just when I think the ground is dry enough for us to drive back a load of compost we rain. Then when I think it is dry we have a freeze. Gary has been driving around with my bags of expanded shell in the back of his truck for several weeks now. The plan is on Tuesday or Wednesday of this week to get the dirt ready and then to get the seeds in by the weekend.

Whoever thought growing one's food would be so challenging and difficult. In all my naiveness I thought I would just make a hole and throw the seed or little plant in and then water occasionally and presto we would have a tableful of harvest. Oh, was I ever wrong. I have a feeling back many years ago, if our family depended on my bounty, we would have gone hungry more than a few times. Especially since I don't think I could have just run down to the local supermarket.

But, in all my ignorance, it is still the dirt, wind, air, sun and most of all God, who grow the seed into a tomato for my table.

Is your life full of items on your To Do List under the Obligation or the Delight heading? Are you to a place in your daily walk with the Lord, or a peace in yourself that things have become a delight instead of a chore? I am finding that one is so much more enjoyable that the other.

Do I continue to make excuses that I can't do something, or do I lean on the Lord and step out and say I can. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Do I go past the fears of not being able to believe He can give me the desires of my heart to trusting in Him to complete the work He is beginning in me? Oh, to be able to choose the best over just the good. To go after the desires He has placed in my heart.

Lord, teach me to say Yes to the best you have chosen for me. To be able to delight in the path You have chosen for me versus just completing another obligation on my daily or weekly list. Help me to sing, Lord, to have a joy unspeakable.

Happy Monday to you all,
Lori