Making space for wonder
What might happen if we made space for wonder? If we stopped filling our minds to overflowing. And if we opened our souls to something bigger.
Wonder
Hearing the wild whispers
You must be quiet to hear the wild whispers and be still enough to notice your soul speaking. It’s like listening to the sound of the valley in the morning air. Or the ripple of water that sings of so many things with the silence of rhythm. I wonder, what are you hearing as you … Read more
Up to our neck in miracles
Wherever we find ourselves, there are always moments of awe and wonder if we have eyes to see. FIELD GUIDE Once, in the cool blue middle of a lake,up to my neck in that most precious element of all, I found a pale-gray, curled-upwards pigeon featherfloating on the tension of the water at the very … Read more
For a beautiful open sky
I wonder… What do you see when you stop looking for the answer? When you release your assumptions of how things are or should be. I hope you wonder too…
Surprisingly, a most wondrous sight
Do you ever look in the mirror? Not just a quick check to see that you’re roughly presentable, but really look. Me neither. Yet perhaps there is more to see, as Augustine of Hippo suggested in the fourth century: And men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of … Read more
Looking up to see differently
Watching the astonishingly beautiful cirrus clouds wend their wispy way across the sky took my breath away. I tried to video the expanse and became dizzy at the sight. Yet the experience of being caught up in such enormous wonder unlocked something inside. Looking up really does reframe all that we see. ~ Yesterday’s picture … Read more