We have been designed to savor, to appreciate, to be in awe. From the womb we begin to explore all that seems new, different, interesting. Infants find everything about them and around them fascinating. If we are able to be free of the need to simply survive, we enter into the realm of wonder and amazement. It’s our “go to” place. We are at home with the vast, unknown, unexplainable that gently invites us to open ourselves to the adventure of discovery that is being an alive human being.
Sadly we can too easily drift out of touch with our spiritual roots. Our minds, our emotions are often formed and oriented in other directions. Instead of finding our place in the universe, we are channeled toward a job or a relationship that we are convinced is the answer for us. What is called responsibility takes over – without any explanation of why, responsible to whom, for what. Reason rules and often overrules us from continuing our inner journey.
We do not lose our natural sense of wonder. It’s still there waiting for us to outgrow trying to act so much like we have been told a grownup acts. Sometimes the realization that there is something missing in our lives seeps to the surface of our consciousness and moves us to seek deeper meaning. We can always begin again where we left off as children.