Awe and Wonder

I started reading chapter 5 of The Ragamuffin Gospel yesterday on my way to see my therapist. From the get-go, the chapter is about how the grace of God is kind of forgotten in our society. We have lost the wonder we had as children living in the world, asking "why" over and over and seeing the beauty in everything around us.

"Our world is saturated with grace, and the lurking presence of God is revealed not only in spirit but in matter- in a deer leaping across a meadow, in the flight of an eagle, in fire and in water, in a rainbow after a summer storm, in a gentle doe streaking through a forest, in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, in a child licking a chocolate ice cream cone, in a woman with windblown hair. God intended for us to discover His loving presence in the world around us."
-Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

I admit that I know I've lost some of the wonder I had as a child. Even when I was a freshman in college, I had more wonder than I have now. The summer after freshman year, I went to UVA to do cancer research. I was so ecstatic and soon found myself in awe of the instruments I was using and the research I was doing. Every new thing about research amazed me.

Sometimes I wish I could go back to the awe and wonder I once had about the world. I wish I could find that inspiration inside of me even more, in which I see the beauty in everything in God's creation. I do definitely have moments in which I am in absolute awe of God, but I wish it was more often.