Zach Fauver Wonder of Creation

“We get so preoccupied with ourselves, the words we speak the plans and projects we conceive that we become immune to the glory of creation. We barely notice the cloud passing over the moon or the dewdrops clinging to the rose leaves. The ice on the pond comes and goes. The wild blackberries ripen and wither. The blackbird nests outside our bedroom window. We don’t see her. We avoid the cold and the heat. We refrigerate ourselves in summer and entomb ourselves in plastic in winter. We rake up every leaf as fast as it falls. We are so accustomed to buying prepackaged meats and fish and fowl in supermarkets we never think and blink about the bounty of God’s creation. We grow complacent and lead practical lives. We miss the experience of awe, reverence, and wonder.” –Brennan Manning
Our American society in general has lost is sense of natural wonder. People are so wrapped up in their plans and in gaining power and success that they pay no mind to the incredible world around them. I spent the past weak in Newark New Jersey, and a day in NYC. We worked with inner city kids the majority of the time, helping them with school, and just giving them much needed attention. It saddened my heart to know that some of these kids will spend their entire lives in this dirty, smelly, trash filled city. They will go to school here get a job here and fill another space in the projects when they are old enough, possibly never even seeing what is outside the city borders. They could go their whole lives and never experience the wonder found in Gods creation.
Others chose this life apart from wonder. They are the money hungry entrepreneurs in NYC. They may once or twice a year go to a fancy resort on the water in the Caribbean, but sill won’t truly get a sense of wonder. I would imagine that at the end of a life lived only for a carrier and prosperity; one will lay on his death bed wishing he had experienced more wonder in his life.