Wonderment. Isn’t that an interesting word. I first came across this word a couple of years ago, and it has stuck with me. Wonderment is defined as awed admiration, curiosity, or wonder. If you think about it, wonderment is about exploring the unknown.
I took a personal day to sit in my hermitage (two space heaters going to keep warm on this cold Minnesota winter day [-11 this morning]) and see what God was inviting me to ponder. The topic that came into focus for me was “intimacy with God.” I have been invited again into a state of wonderment about nurturing and growing my deep, rich, intimate relationship with God.
In his book The Naked Now, Richard Rohr says that it is in loving something that we can truly know the object of that love. For me, this is what wonderment is about, holding God in awed admiration, yet being curious as to what new thing I will learn about him. After all, this is the purpose of the pilgrimage I’m on, embracing the unknown to make it known.