While visiting a few of the sites around Tbilisi, Georgia – castles and cathedrals and botanical gardens via cobblestone roadways lined with fruit, bread, and wine vendors – one word keeps coming to mind:
Wonder
Actually, I think it may be more of a question….
When I stood inside an old church building high on the Tbilisi hillside, my neck craning to see the mural covered ceiling – “wonder” floated across my mind again.
What arched before my eyes was beautiful in its own right. And I can appreciate the hours of painstaking work that has gone in to creating this visual storyboard…I felt an internal awe begin to stir.
Something about that feeling has been eating at me ever since.
And this morning I woke up with the song “Wonder” by Amanda Cooke playing softly through my mind.
Maybe God is trying to say something, eh?
//May we never lose our wonder
May we never lose our wonder
Wide eyed and mystified
May we be just like a child
Staring at the beauty of our King//
What does it mean to stand in wonder before God?
Am I truly leaving room to simply get lost in the beauty of who He is? Do I look at Him in wonder?
Is there something significant about allowing myself to get lost inside the awe and wonder of what makes Him…Him?
I believe there is.
//May we never lose our wonder//
When I stand on top of mountains in Krygyzstan abandoned to the grandeur stretching out below me – there I experience a sense of wonder.
I’ve also caught it in the eyes of children seeing a white girl with dreadlocks for the first time while travelling by train between Kazakhstan and Georgia.
It appeared in the tear-glistening eye of a friend as hope is yet again restored with an encouraging word.
//May we never lose our wonder//
But I believe their is a greater kind of wonder…one that can only be experienced by staring long and hard into the glorious person that is God…
Because that kind of wonder will transform your life…
Because we become like what we behold.
Dear God:
//You are beautiful in all of Your ways//
And:
//You fascinate me
You fascinate us
You fascinate us, with who you are
You fascinate us with your love
You are beautiful
You are glorious//
//May we never lose our wonder//
