Wonder and Awe
A friend shared this video that I then watched as part of my morning spiritual practice. Please take a few minutes to watch and listen before reading the rest of this post. It made me think about some of the other worship spaces that I have been in and how art was used or not used in the interest of helping people have spiritual experiences. And then I thought about how we all learn differently, so maybe the things that help us to feel wonder and awe are also different. OK, I put in the maybe to soften this. I believe that what helps us to feel wonder and awe varies from person to person, and in one person at different points in their life. I'm a big believer in beauty and that beauty can be found even in the most harsh or sparse or bare places. When I was a child, the world-side denomination that I was a part of began to remove all art from it's worship spaces. (Murals in historic buildings were exempted, and in all buildings there is still a lot of religious ...