So in Chapter 6 Sally encourages us to become more childlike in our view of God. To approach our days with a sense of wonderment and amazement in all that God is and provides.
I totally agree with her encouragment. Not a day goes by that I am not grateful for the life I live and the people in it. But being grateful is not necessarily the same as being amazed or captivated. That is what she's meaning by being more childlike.
I can see that kind of emotion in my own child nearly every day. She marvels at something on a daily basis and typically she is confounded by the simple things like seeing our cats run around the house, watching Barney on TV or splashing around in the bathtub. She's enthralled by things I tend to take advantage of, if/when I even take the time to notice them.
What a wonderful world in which she lives. Always something to see, do, experience and enjoy with little to no intention on her part. Her world happens right before her eyes and she is a willing and able participant in anything that unfolds. She's carefree, curious and captivated by anything God throws at her. Except her friends at school. She bites them.
Anyway.
Chapter 6 really inspired me to take a look around at the beauty and splendor in my life. Take a seat and literally "people watch" all the happenings in my life and be amazed. Whether it be a beautiful sunset, a great meal, busy traffic or a sleeping baby - life provides many many moments to be awed.
Forget the grandiose stuff like the Grand Canyon, solar system and Vera Bradley handbags...everyone is amazed by those, of course. But its the little things, the seemingly mundane, run-of-the-mill, familiar experiences that happen everyday that we should be stunned by. Those are the things that God puts in front of us everyday to remind us we are real and so is He.
How lucky we are to be reminded on a daily basis of His existence, when we decide to look and be astonished.
"During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. The bare fact of existence paralyzes me... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe--like an infant on its back in a cot. It is impossible to be interested in anything in particular while overhead the sun shines or underneath my feet grows a single blade of grass."
W.N.P. Barbellion
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