Forgive the lack of posting lately... our internet hasn't been available for the last few weeks. I just cleared out 93 emails from my inbox! The following is an excert from The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning. A good read. Here are his thoughts on wonder:
By and large, our world has lost its sense of wonder. We have grown up. We no longer catch our breath at the sight of a rainbow or the scent of a rose, as we once did. We have grown bigger and everything else smaller, less impressive. God is being edged out of his world by science. As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. We get so preoccupied with ourselves, the words we speak, the plans and projects we conceive; we become immune to the glory of creation. We barely notice the clouds… the dewdrops… the wild blackberries… We avoid the cold and the heat. We buy prepackaged meat and vegetables and never think about the bounty of God's creation. We grow complacent and lead practical lives. We miss the experience of awe, reverence, and wisdom.
Our world is saturated with grace, and the lurking presence of God is revealed in spirit as well as in matter. So often we religious people walk amid the beauty and bounty of nature and we talk nonstop. We miss the panorama of color and sound and smell… We fail to be stretched by the magnificence of the world saturated with grace.
“For what we need to know… is not just that God exists… but that there is a God right here in the thick of our day-by-day lives who may not be writing messages about himself in the stars but in one way or another is trying to get messages through our blindness as we move around down here knee-deep in the fragrant muck and misery and marvel of the world. It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God'spresence.” -Frederick Buechner
How do we live in the presence of the living God?
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