Imagine finding out that your test results were benign - no cancer! Maybe seeing those two pink lines on the pregnancy test after years of aching disappointment. Or discovering at last that a literary agency wants to rep you and the manuscript you’ve been working on for the last year. Perhaps getting the call from your realtor that your offer on your dream home was accepted.

What might be your first reaction? My guess is you would tell your partner, friend, or family member. You might even tell whatever random stranger was nearby. As humans, we have this innate urge to share our excitement.

C. S. Lewis articulates this so beautifully.

“I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.

“It is frustrating to have discovered a new author and not to be able to tell anyone how good [they are]; to come suddenly, at the turn of the road, upon some mountain valley of unexpected grandeur and then to have to keep silent because the people with you care for it no more than for a tin can in the ditch; to hear a good joke and find no one to share it with...”

Is there an incomplete delight you need to express today?

To express today: How will you share the enjoyment you feel?