The Desires of Your Heart

Tuesday, April 28, 2020, @ 2:00 p.m. ET, to honor our frontline & essential workers
I regularly rode the train to Philly, from August 2019 to March 2020. Those trips were more than weekly activities to look forward to; they were all-out sensory experiences. Weekly trips would have continued, except for COVID-19's shelter-in-place orders that began 45+ days ago. It is good to know that angels, Navy's Blue Angels (and Air Force Thunderbirds) in particular, covered an incredible city yesterday.

I have a deep-down love for the City of Philadelphia, and have tried to figure out the reason why. It makes absolutely no sense to feel this way! far from family, friends, and anything familiar; I don't normally like the congestion of big cities, and did not grow up in or near Philly (never stepping foot in the city until March 2019, when my husband had a job interview); it has beggars, city grime, and plenty of cigarette smoke that floats through the air as we walk its sidewalks; and, I was even nearly hit by a huge city bus. So, why do I love Philly?

When the Bible says "God will give you the desires of your heart" it can be interpreted two ways. My interpretation has always been that God will give to us those things we deep-down desire (as long as we delight in Him). But there is a second way to interpret that verse: God will put in your heart his desires, and He will fulfill them. Is that why I love Philly so much? God put a supernatural, deep love in my spirit, for His purposes, for this life season? 

That love has bubbled into an uninterpretable love. All I know is that when the train lands in the station, and my foot steps onto Philly soil, I take in everything; I hear the sound of the city streets, and the beating in my heart. It is the Liberty Bell, the history, Rocky Steps, and thin-crust New York style pizza. I feel lighter. I have purpose. He wants me walking that City, and He wants my husband there. 

"Angels" visibly covered our beloved Philly yesterday, and angels still do. When we will return next is still unknown. The virus basically directs the orders, and we cooperate. 

Thank you for all you do, frontline and essential workers!
Delight yourself in the Lord & he will give you the desires of your heart
(Psalm 37:4)

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