Wondering - expressing awe, admiration, amazement or surprise, synonymous with inquisitiveness, speculation, questioning.
Western culture sees wondering as a waste of time. Navel gazing. Vagueness. Weakness.
Lack of wondering in any person is a worry and a wonder in itself.
We move towards complete and absolutist answers for every question. In formal evangelical Christianity the wonder that is God is replaced by hard nosed righteousness - a kind of efficiency of understanding. Ditching wonder allows us to be right and it allows us to have a comforting answer to everything. Lets step back into wonder once more. We don't have to switch off our faculties just redirect them.
Practice wondering. Learn to leave the wonder in place. Wondering should be a resource for our minds and our hearts.
Lets rehabilate Wonder.
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