Wonderment Part 3: How Do We Get It Back?
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…
Wonderment Part 2: Why Should We Get It Back?
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Beyond the Horizon 