The Highlight of My Week!

Every time I am planning to get together with a friend, she comments “It’s the highlight of my week!”.

And she means it! Whether we’re going for coffee, or sharing a meal, or running errands – we have a great time. And we are both intentional to convey how much our time together means to us. It’s the highlight of our week!

However, there are some weeks when we may have more than one highlight. And that’s okay. A new highlight does not diminish the one we’ve had – in fact it enhances it. How fortunate are we to have had multiple highlights!

This happens as we are open to being surprised by joy. We don’t feel the need to compare one experience of joy to another – we can simply delight in the delights! It could be connection with a friend, it could be meaningful worship, it could be a favourite song on the radio: when joy comes, we embrace it as a gift.

This is, for us, part of our faith. We do our best to live life looking for the moments of happiness, of connection, of love: for we know that when we experience love, we are experiencing God.

And when we experience God, it becomes the highlight of our week.

So we appreciate those moments, for exactly what and when they are. And we appreciate the connection to love (and to God) every time we say (and hear) “it’s the highlight of my week!”