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Want of Wonder

“We are perishing for want of wonder,
not for want of wonders.”

~G.K. Chesterton

 

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While researching the other day, I came across this Chesterton quote.  I had to reread it a couple of times to really let it soak in.  Chesterton was an English writer and theologian at the turn of the twentieth century.  I’ve not read any Chesterton and I see him appearing in the future on my What I’m Reading series.

In this hurry-up-and-achieve-it world, I feel that we have lost our “want of wonder.”  We rarely slow down and “smell the roses,” let alone sit and study the rose.

What can you see if you sit and wonder at a rose?  The scent, the depth of color, the intricacy of the petals, the curl of the stamen, and so much more!

Or what if you sit in your living room and wonder at the light in the room, the sounds in the house, the texture of the fabric of the chair you’re in?

We can even get industrial and digital.  Is there wonder in your laptop?  The weight of it in your lap, the smoothness of the case, the contrast between the surface and the keys, the many gifts that had to come together to create the digital world.

Wonder is there!  We just have to stop and find it.

What do you think of this quote?  What can you find today to wonder at?

 

 

Positive Meme Monday #11

“Here are sweet-peas, on tip-toe for a flight:/ With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white,/ And taper fingers catching at all things, / To bind them all about with tiny rings.”  John Keats pink sweet peas“Here are sweet-peas, on tip-toe for a flight:
With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white,
And taper fingers catching at all things,
To bind them all about with tiny rings.”
John Keats

 " . . . meanwhile concern [yourself] with the Present because there, and there alone, all duty, all grace, all knowledge, and all pleasure dwell . . . ."  --C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

” . . . meanwhile concern [yourself] with the Present because there,
and there alone, all duty, all grace, all knowledge, and all pleasure dwell . . . .”

–C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

'Tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes! ~William Wordsworth Pink Astible

‘Tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes!
~William Wordsworth

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. ~Mirabel Osler pink lupine

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which,
if you were to creep up behind someone at their work,
you would find them smiling.
~Mirabel Osler

The Lord is faithful to all His promises and loving toward all He has made.  Psalm 145:13 ants on bishop's weed

The Lord is faithful to all His promises and loving toward all He has made.  Psalm 145:13

 

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