Letting wonder have some space

Shame likes to stifle wonder. This week, we’re going to try and not let it.

I will sit still and let the marvels and the adventures settle on me like flies. There are plenty of them, I assure you. The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

- G.K Chesterton

Respond or sit with some of the below questions:

Reflect on the holidays of your youth. Was there wonder, was there shame? Did they have any relation to each other?

In what ways has your openness to the world (people, ideas, self, etc) been squashed?

How has wonder transformed to shame or cynicism for you?

How has your curiosity been deemed a sin?

How has that impacted your ability to be wonder-full in your adult life?

Do you sense a relationship between shame and cynicism? Have you replaced one for the other? Explore.

What role have wonder and curiosity had in reframing your relationship to spirituality?

What are some moments you have been able to capture/bask/flow in unabashed wonder?

What would it look like to build the habits of seeking and being within wonder? Time, routine, intention?

What does uncorrupted wonder and curiosity lead you to feel? Where do you feel it in your body?

If you have kids, where have you seen their wonder squashed? Where does it come alive?

How can you make way for wonder this Christmas?

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Christmas is ultimately a story of the Divine finding new ways to occupy the world. That’s pretty wonder-full.

Often times to be attuned to wonder and curiosity is to allow our baseline interaction with the world to be reframed. This video can help with that.