• Practicing Awe: Curiosity

    “If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those characteristics of childhood which we become better and happier by outgrowing. Who in his sense would not keep, if he could, that tireless curiosity, that intensity of imagination, that facility of…

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  • Practicing Awe: Expectations

    “Expectations should be dressed in joy and transformational power, not pain and death.” – Adela Olteanu The topic of expectations is extensive and could easily warrant a whole book of its own.  So, I am going to explore just one of the foundational pillars on which the whole structure of our expectations is built.  Who…

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  • For some people, the “how” begins with “why”.  Why did it disappear in the first place?  Was it just the steady erosion that affects most adults, or is there something still in the way?  Fear? Disillusionment? Disappointment?  Cynicism?  Many of us just “grew up” and accepted the framework of being too mature or too old…

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  • In the garden, God gave Adam and Eve a place to start and a whole lot of principles woven into the universe. Many things had been made, but not everything had been revealed. It was like a parent dumping a whole tub of Legos® on the floor, and then standing back and waiting to see…

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  • Practicing Awe: Wonderment

    I was recently walking in the woods with a friend who is a delightful kindred spirit.  We both love nature and we both have an endearing tendency to talk to things we see – trees, squirrels, bugs, birds – you name it, we talk to it.  On our way back from the waterfall that we…

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