Delightful Daily Details Archives ⋆ A Delightful Glow https://adelightfulglow.com/category/delightful-daily-details/ Discovering Delight & Dwelling in Our Days Mon, 27 Jan 2025 23:42:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/adelightfulglow.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/cropped-1-of-1-4.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Delightful Daily Details Archives ⋆ A Delightful Glow https://adelightfulglow.com/category/delightful-daily-details/ 32 32 26348127 Books I Read in 2024 and Found To Be Delightful https://adelightfulglow.com/books-i-read-in-2024-and-found-to-be-delightful/ https://adelightfulglow.com/books-i-read-in-2024-and-found-to-be-delightful/#comments Mon, 27 Jan 2025 23:41:11 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49805 January dances away on the calendar as I sit and type this. We’ve had snow and ice and snow again and cold temperatures to go with it all. I haven’t minded. Granted, I’ve been able to stay inside my warm and cozy house during most of it, thus not so much to mind. It has [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/books-i-read-in-2024-and-found-to-be-delightful/feed/ 2 49805 On Significance and Purpose https://adelightfulglow.com/on-significance-and-purpose/ https://adelightfulglow.com/on-significance-and-purpose/#respond Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:42:41 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49742 In-the-moment often doesn’t reveal the importance of-the-moment. In-the-moment seldom gazes directly in our eyes or points out the progress or reassures us this is our next best thing. In-the-moment rarely offers significance a seat. It’s after-the-moment who often motions backward where on the distance shore significance waves shyly and our souls gasp with the wonder [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/on-significance-and-purpose/feed/ 0 49742 The Backyard Beckoned a Beauty Hunt https://adelightfulglow.com/the-backyard-beckoned-a-beauty-hunt/ https://adelightfulglow.com/the-backyard-beckoned-a-beauty-hunt/#respond Thu, 06 Jun 2024 01:52:33 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49508 The backyard beckoned a beauty hunt.I acquiesced as I fumbled for worn ebony flip-flops. Once outside, our June breeze swings friendly combat, gives challenge to the muggy air. The humidity wins and my t-shirt begins to cling to my back as the heavy air presses in on skin and the sun reappears in a hide-and-seek game [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/the-backyard-beckoned-a-beauty-hunt/feed/ 0 49508 Our Right Now Days https://adelightfulglow.com/our-right-now-days/ https://adelightfulglow.com/our-right-now-days/#respond Fri, 03 May 2024 09:59:00 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49475 Life is breathtakingly beautiful, ablaze with incandescent brilliance AND simultaneously achingly haunting and hard and hopeless. Melodramatic, maybe. Yet also a maxim  of truth. Wonder stops us in our tracks with a blaze of glory.Wonder waits with impatience asking when. Faith offers firm footing.Faith frustrates us with uncertainites we can’t define. Delight dwells in hidden [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/our-right-now-days/feed/ 0 49475 I Hope April Hugged You https://adelightfulglow.com/i-hope-april-hugged-you/ https://adelightfulglow.com/i-hope-april-hugged-you/#respond Thu, 02 May 2024 13:57:52 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49471 I hope April hugged you in warmth and comfort.I hope it bloomed for you in tulip red and daffodil yellow and hyacinth pink.I hope pansies pinpointed your pathway and peonies swayed with promise. Maybe April was lonely for you, the days long, gray, shadowy.Perhaps there were tears or an unexplained sadness you couldn’t shake.Angst held [...]

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]]> https://adelightfulglow.com/i-hope-april-hugged-you/feed/ 0 49471 Our Fourth Collection of Liturgies of the Little Things https://adelightfulglow.com/our-fourth-collection-of-liturgies-of-the-little-things/ https://adelightfulglow.com/our-fourth-collection-of-liturgies-of-the-little-things/#respond Mon, 04 Dec 2023 10:59:00 +0000 https://adelightfulglow.com/?p=49312 Heaven Hugging Earth What creative brilliance to paint a sky every morning and evening.A cycle of sameness, over and over.Yet unbelievably different each and every time.Every skyscape influenced by perspective and place.Running ribbons of orange and mauve, swirled strokes of gold blended with violet and aqua.Heaven hugging earth. A Christmas Miracle A Christmas miracle on [...]

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