This resonates with me so much as a highly imaginative writer and a young adult who sees beauty everywhere. I think people see me as naive quite often, but I can’t help being so full of wonder! Thank you for sharing this - God bless!
This is really good and I agree! Trouble for me is helping those close to me who are very cynical. A loved one just told me yesterday how he always looks at things from the worst case scenario point of view. It deeply saddens me. I wish I could better help him develop a sense of awe and wonder—the antidote to this cynical worldview!
Thank you for this. I was sharing some of what you wrote in church today. As an almost 65 year old and a grandfather of 33 I have tried to share this wonder and excitement with my grandchildren. There is a joy in just sitting and marvelling at the details on a pink orb weaver spider or watching the flight of a hummingbird. I start work early in the morning and there are many days when I step out the door and am amazed at the cosmos spread out above me. There are many mystery’s around me and I am content in not knowing all the details or answers to so many questions.
Could it be that humans are naturally designed to have a sense of awe and wonder, but they become cursed with an enchantment (spell) of materialism? Maybe we need to be disenchanted from the zeitgeist.
Beautiful Christopher. Congratulations on both parts of this series of articles. They succinctly summed up the problem of cynicism and argued well for your proposed solution. I've listened to Paul Kingsnorth's Against the Machine audio version twice in the last few weeks and have ordered a copy. Masterful piece of work. Malcolm Guite is new to me. I must give him a listen.
Have any of you read the second Philip Pullman series, The Book of Dust? I'm reading the last one, The Rose Field, and it is about exactly this. The way that the story depicts that ache of losing innocence and adopting cynicism in your twenties is so moving and relatable. (Pullman's first series, with the same characters, is His Dark Materials.)
This resonates with me so much as a highly imaginative writer and a young adult who sees beauty everywhere. I think people see me as naive quite often, but I can’t help being so full of wonder! Thank you for sharing this - God bless!
This is really good and I agree! Trouble for me is helping those close to me who are very cynical. A loved one just told me yesterday how he always looks at things from the worst case scenario point of view. It deeply saddens me. I wish I could better help him develop a sense of awe and wonder—the antidote to this cynical worldview!
Thank you for this. I was sharing some of what you wrote in church today. As an almost 65 year old and a grandfather of 33 I have tried to share this wonder and excitement with my grandchildren. There is a joy in just sitting and marvelling at the details on a pink orb weaver spider or watching the flight of a hummingbird. I start work early in the morning and there are many days when I step out the door and am amazed at the cosmos spread out above me. There are many mystery’s around me and I am content in not knowing all the details or answers to so many questions.
Could it be that humans are naturally designed to have a sense of awe and wonder, but they become cursed with an enchantment (spell) of materialism? Maybe we need to be disenchanted from the zeitgeist.
Beautiful Christopher. Congratulations on both parts of this series of articles. They succinctly summed up the problem of cynicism and argued well for your proposed solution. I've listened to Paul Kingsnorth's Against the Machine audio version twice in the last few weeks and have ordered a copy. Masterful piece of work. Malcolm Guite is new to me. I must give him a listen.
Have any of you read the second Philip Pullman series, The Book of Dust? I'm reading the last one, The Rose Field, and it is about exactly this. The way that the story depicts that ache of losing innocence and adopting cynicism in your twenties is so moving and relatable. (Pullman's first series, with the same characters, is His Dark Materials.)