Every morning and night I receive a notification on my phone from the Devotion App from the Play Store. I installed it quite a while back, because I want to feel connected and in touch with my faith throughout the day. Most of the time the devotionals are so deep that I don't even know the answer to the questions that are often included in them. Tonight's was from Psalm 37:4. It read, "take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart's desires". It ended with asking, "Do you know your big dream?"
So here I am a couple hours later still thinking about what that is. It was very clear that this dream was not to include material possessions.
I can't help but think about Dorothy, in the Wizard of Oz, when she woke up and her Aunt and Uncle and the farm hands were there and she said, "If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with." If I may correct Miss Dorothy, she wasn't really looking for her heart's desire; she was running away so the mean old Elmira Gulch wouldn't realize that Toto had jumped out of her basket and ran back home. She had taken him in the first place because he had supposedly bit her but...oh nevermind, I'm optimistic that the majority of the earths population have seen the movie. Anyway, back to my heart's desire. So, if material things are out than one of my desires is I wish I could live forever, but that's impossible, and do I REALLY want to live forever? Picture me 200 years old. What am I going to be able to do anyway? Everyone I know would be passed away. I can see why that's not a possible thing. I'd love it if my dogs could live for a LONG time still, and be healthy and happy. Is this my final answer though. I think God would be expecting something deeper. I love my puppies more than anything, but if I'm taking proper care of them and loving them as much as possible, than I have faith that they will still be around for quite some time. So what really is my heart's desire? Am I supposed to know? Does everyone know theirs? Really, when it comes right down to it, doesn't everyone just want to be happy? Whether you are married or single, dating or alone, young or old, isn't happiness something everyone works for? Some people shop to fulfill a void of unhappiness, some people fill their lives with their favourite hobby or past-time because it makes them happy, and others spend all of their time surrounded by family and friends because they are happiest when being with others. I would have to say that being completely happy with whatever I have and wherever I am and whatever I'm doing would most likely be what my heart's desire really is. No matter where God has brought me or whatever he has given me to handle, all I would love to be is happy.
Now. What's your heart's desire?
So here I am a couple hours later still thinking about what that is. It was very clear that this dream was not to include material possessions.
I can't help but think about Dorothy, in the Wizard of Oz, when she woke up and her Aunt and Uncle and the farm hands were there and she said, "If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with." If I may correct Miss Dorothy, she wasn't really looking for her heart's desire; she was running away so the mean old Elmira Gulch wouldn't realize that Toto had jumped out of her basket and ran back home. She had taken him in the first place because he had supposedly bit her but...oh nevermind, I'm optimistic that the majority of the earths population have seen the movie. Anyway, back to my heart's desire. So, if material things are out than one of my desires is I wish I could live forever, but that's impossible, and do I REALLY want to live forever? Picture me 200 years old. What am I going to be able to do anyway? Everyone I know would be passed away. I can see why that's not a possible thing. I'd love it if my dogs could live for a LONG time still, and be healthy and happy. Is this my final answer though. I think God would be expecting something deeper. I love my puppies more than anything, but if I'm taking proper care of them and loving them as much as possible, than I have faith that they will still be around for quite some time. So what really is my heart's desire? Am I supposed to know? Does everyone know theirs? Really, when it comes right down to it, doesn't everyone just want to be happy? Whether you are married or single, dating or alone, young or old, isn't happiness something everyone works for? Some people shop to fulfill a void of unhappiness, some people fill their lives with their favourite hobby or past-time because it makes them happy, and others spend all of their time surrounded by family and friends because they are happiest when being with others. I would have to say that being completely happy with whatever I have and wherever I am and whatever I'm doing would most likely be what my heart's desire really is. No matter where God has brought me or whatever he has given me to handle, all I would love to be is happy.
Now. What's your heart's desire?
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