The Wonder Of Wonder
by David Brand

When I feel wonder, I am elevated
without leaving the ground.

Feeling wonder returns me to reverence.
In reverence, I become porous.
In porosity, I become receptive.
In receptivity, I am changed.

When I live in wonder, the ordinary becomes luminous –
in a child’s question,
in a stranger’s kindness,
in the geometry of a snowflake,
in a bird singing,
in the simple act of walking my dog,
in the steady rhythm of my heartbeat.

For nothing is too small to carry the feeling and essence of wonder.

Wonder is the realization that my life is not mundane,
but a miracle to witness and experience.

When I allow myself to feel it fully,
wonder rearranges my interior landscape.
Resentments loosen.
Urgency softens.
Comparisons and judgements fade into quiet gratitude.
Priorities change.
Presence is in full bloom.

Wonder is not my escape from the world.
It is my deeper entry into it.

It asks me to look longer.
To listen more carefully.
To let beauty interrupt me.
To allow the mystery to remain mysterious
while I revel in it anyway.

In the end,
the wonder of wonder
is that it returns me to myself –
to the vast, profound awareness
that I am alive inside something immeasurable
and this alone is astonishing.

Let wonder lift me.
Let it steady me.
Let it remind me
that beneath habit and hurry
there is a vast, luminous field
waiting to surprise me again and again.

Step into it.
Stand in it.
Feel it.
Be remade by it.

For when I choose wonder,
I choose reverence.
I choose expansion.
I choose life.

Much Love from UPLIFT
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