Delight, according to author Shauna Niequist, is when we engage our senses and our spirits to experience the world God made, and in that moment, we feel a welling up of joy, goodness, and gratitude.

Ah, raise your hand if you could stand a little more of this in your life, right?

Delight floods our hearts, she writes, when we hear a song we love, when we stand in front of a painting that moves us, when we watch a child play, when we taste something and all at once our senses are awakened by texture and flavor and smell…It changes us, and makes the unbearable a little less so.

Our lives can be so much more joyful when we search for delight. This episode will offer up some (sometimes crazy) inspiration and a few specific ways to look for—and find—the kind of beauty and wonder and gratitude that we all desperately need.

Listen in for a life-changer!

NOTES:

Niequist, Shauna. “On Delight and Why It Matters.” Substack, July 25, 2023.
https://shaunaniequist.substack.com/p/on-delight-and-why-it-matters

Niequist, Shauna. “A Delight List.” Substack, July 10, 2024.
https://shaunaniequist.substack.com/p/a-delight-list

Oscar Mayer Weinermobile.
https://www.oscarmayer.com/wienermobile/

Pop’s Dogs and Ma’s Burgers.
https://www.yelp.com/biz/pops-dogs-and-mas-burgers-richmond-4

Richmond Flying Squirrels.
https://www.milb.com/richmond

The “Fun Girls.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fun_Girls