Delight is Creative and Generative

As the calendar turns, there is new energy poured into our lives, and we take stock of what has been and make some steps toward bringing in the new.

It is a good time to ask the question, "What brings me delight?"

Some months ago, I was drumming and chanting with a friend, and we both entered this space in which our drumming and our chanting became what we later called a "laughing meditation," --we were so full of delight in what we were doing, that we could both feel this kind of chuckle emerging out of the sheer joy of it.

In that space of delight, I could see that a person could put any number of things into motion to be created. Delight appeared to me as though it were the singular creative energy of the universe.

I thought recently of Christ's words, that you must be like little children to enter (or experience) the Kingdom of Heaven. A child's world is full of delight. Children create out of delight and delight in what they create. Sounds like heaven to me!

Especially in hard times, it is important to tap into -- and DO--what delights us. It is what makes us buoyant -- and gives us that creative spark that can create moments, and days, and worlds we want to live in.