Every Day Wonders

If you are anything like me, we all crave order and certainty. Predictability offers safety.

However, we take our everyday life for granted.  We need to fall in love with life anew.  Only when fearing we might lose that life, do we become more mindful of our blessings. 

                                 How can we become more enchanted with life?

First, we need to think how a child reacts to a cute bunny, a dandelion to blow, or a rainbow after a rain. 

Even as adults we can be filled with wonder.  When we travel to a new place we find wonder in the landscape, architecture, art, and creativity of the people. 

So why don’t we feel such awe every day?  Do we see our lives as ordinary, dull and boring? 

As we become familiar with own space we turn off our curiosity and lose the ability to see things as unique. 

There’s nothing wrong with the mind’s powerful tendency to turn the miraculous into ordinary, unless you’d like to feel enchanted by life again!! 

Here are a few suggestions we might try to bring back the joy of renewal.

Try seeing things with a “beginners” mind……as if seeing things for the first time.  See people you know with fresh eyes and wonder.  Each person is unique. 

When walking around your house notice things that you already own. Let them bring back memories.   I still have a few wedding gifts.  Each one brings me back to our marriage and the person who gave me that gift.   They are a bit of magic in my life.

When you go outside, really see a tree.  See the spaces between the branches.
Find a shape in a cloud. See that cute squirrel doing his tricks.  And that bird.    He’s serenading you.

When you message someone or see some new wonder of AI just imagine how your grandparents would have been awestruck by such magic.

                            Practice becoming enchanted with the ordinary. 

Practice experiencing things as if for the first time.  Taste your food as if it were the first time you’d ever tasted anything so delicious.  Can you fall in love with life and recapture a sense of magic and wonder? Can you feel a sense of the enchanted all around you?

                                It’s  all there, waiting for you to see it.
                                            God’s gifts to you