Practicing Awe

  • 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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  • Practicing Awe: Delight

    I know it has been a few months since the last post on this topic.  Hoping to get back in the flow again! The other day I was at the doctor’s office for a routine checkup.  When they had finished poking and prodding and telling me all the same stuff, I got in the checkout

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  • Practicing Awe: Gratitude

    “Thus I have said that stories of magic alone can express my sense that life is not only a pleasure but a kind of eccentric privilege.  I may express this other feeling of cosmic coziness by allusion to another book always read in boyhood, Robinson Crusoe, which I read about this time, and which owes

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  • Practicing Awe: Reverence

    Awe is a transcendent emotional experience.  It’s an intense jumble of emotions we normally don’t find all in one place – wonder, joy, fear, surprise, and sometimes horror.  At the core of it is a realization that something is far bigger and more powerful than we are.  I emphatically believe that it was designed by

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