Dear All of Us,
Over the weekend
I wondered how best
to start off this week's blog.
Well, telling you that,
I just found out.
We're started. :)
We all wonder
a lot about a lot.
We do that
in two ways:
Puzzlement
and
Awe
Puzzlement Wondering
is
questioning
Sometimes it is
functional/creative.
We wonder what
we should have
for supper.
We wonder how best
to word paint a poem.
Often questioning wonder
is worrisome.
We wonder if we will
AI ourselves extinct?
In functional/creative
wondering
we cooperate with God,
in ordering daily life
and its enrichment.
In worrisome wondering
we can be One with God
in caring about all
People and Creation.
We are active in God's
redemptive work in
righting wrong
where we can,
as we can.
We're dealing with that
in spades these days.
We need
to make sure
we don't let
Puzzlement
Wondering
crowd out
The Wonder
of
Awe
Awe
happens
as we experience God
lovingly active and unitive
in
Prayer, Nature, Others.
Awe is amazement,
astonishment.
We are suffused in
reverence and admiration,
pure wonder.
We're on
The Skyland Drive in
The Shenandoah Mountains
of Virginia.
We just need
to pull over and let
the wonder of it all
have us.
We hold close
a newborn baby.
Just nine months before
two cells sparked a union
that has matured
to over one trillion cells
in nine months
and will grow to over
thirty-one trillion more.
This newborn is
a life, a person.
It has an incredible body of
intricate systems and powers,
a soul and psyche
with divine potentials.
We just snuggle
with the newborn and
warm in wonder
We open
to God
in prayer.
Sometimes we are
calmed, clarified,
strengthened.
Other times we are
transfused into
a passionate bliss
beyond concept or word.
We slow down enough
to notice
the deep down
marvels in the sciences,
majesty in the arts.
We companion a tree
springing to freshness,
summer maturing,
autumn toned rich,
winter rugged.
The Wonder
of
Awe
is not answer
but
Rapture
"God's glory
is on tour
in the skies,
God-craft
on exhibit
across the horizon."
Psalm 19:1
The Message
Translation
God has given us
five senses, a mind,
soul and psyche.
Their employ is to
open to Him,
open to the wonders
of His Creation,
to welcome Him
in them
as we wonder about
the functional,
the worrisome,
the awesome.
"God saw all
that He had made,
and behold,
it was very good,"
Genesis 1:31
"The most beautiful thing
we can experience is the
mysterious.
It is the source of all
true art and science.
He who can
no longer pause
to wonder
and stand in
rapt awe,
is as good as dead,
his eyes are closed"
Albert Einstein
Given
the heavy,
the hurry
the gravity
of our just now,
it is such a grace
to notice and
bask in God,
God present in
Prayer, Nature, Others
in all of Creation.
It's a
WONDER
to behold,
It's a
WONDER
in which
to be held.
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SEE YOU NEXT WEEK.
IN THE SPIRIT AND WORDS
OF
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
MAY WE ALL BE IN AWE:
"THERE LIVES
THE DEAREST FRESHNESS
DEEP DOWN THINGS" (1)
LOVE TO ALL
GOD BLESS
JOHN FRANK
(1)Hopkins quote from
God's Grandeur
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