Seeing Green: Don't Let Envy Color Your Joy

by Tilly Dillehay

• God is the reason that every good thing you experience reminds you of some other good experience that is lost in either the past or in the future. Nostalgia hints at glory. • God is the reason that when you fall in love, you feel like every good thing in you is being called out and forward and up. Love hints at glory. • God is the reason that you still remember the day your sixth-grade teacher told you your paper was “Excellent! You really grasped the material!” God is also the reason that you have spent your entire life trying to get your father to say similar words. Proper praise from a superior hints at glory. • God is the reason that you’ve always longed to go to Paris, and he is the reason that when you make it to Paris you long even more to get back home. Yearning for another land hints at glory. • God is the reason that music moves you as it does, stories swell your soul, and you could easily spend all your weekends gazing at paintings or photography or pretty dresses. Art hints at glory. • God is even the reason that you hate to be cut out of cliques and why there are people who spend their entire lives social climbing. The desire to be “inside” hints at glory.