Wonder

“I wonder what the Trinity may be saying to you through that noticing,” my spiritual director recently asked me after a particular difficult month. It seemed like everything around me was slowly imploding and I found myself unable to hear what the Divine may be saying to me through each struggle. Instead of joining me in my mental and verbal self-flagellation, my spiritual director turned to wonder and in doing so invited me to join her. 

​Often when faced with difficult circumstances, we jump into fight or flight as the individual experiencing the trying circumstances. I either want to attack it head on and get out of it as quickly as possible, or I want to flee from the trying circumstances in any way possible. And if someone is looking into my pain and heartache from the outside, the most common response is to give advice - to try to fix things for me.

​I wonder where the posture of wonder shows up in your everyday life and how it transforms you? And I wonder where wonder is calling you to a different posture? Let us be people of wonder,  allowing it to spill out from the circle into our everyday lives.