Comments on: Beauty Mystery Wonder

By: Beauty in an Unlikely Place | // Andy Jones Live

Beauty in an Unlikely Place | // Andy Jones Live — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:06:24 +0000

[…] to my pastor, Brian Dolleman for his post Beauty, Mystery, Wonder which also inspired this […]

By: shari

shari — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 00:14:36 +0000

Noticing that so much of life is about just showing up. To be present to God is a matter of attentiveness. To him. To his beauty. To his wonder. To his creation. Whether it’s taking intentional time to get quiet with him, or just noticing his work, his glory, his face in the faces of those I see- I’m worried less about what I’m doing for him, and more content to notice his work all about me. And I love it. I’m at rest and nestled into a safe place with him.

By: Brian Dolleman

Brian Dolleman — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 21:17:09 +0000

“All the beauty that’s been lost before wants to find us again.”
—lyrics from the song Ordinary Love by U2

By: Chris Wyatt Bohannon

Chris Wyatt Bohannon — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 21:13:19 +0000

I think the biggest childish wonder I’ve had lately is toward people. Usually it’s that I’m fascinated by how trusting God everything just kind of flows and I never have any worries. Lately people are the biggest wonder and they surprise me a lot in good ways and bad. For the past month I’ve been telling a close friend about certain feelings towards a person and my childish wonder went through the roof when I found out that he responds to how I’ve been feeling even though he was never told. For an entire month I thought she was telling him how I felt and then suddenly they both told me that wasn’t the case. I’m still completely baffled by it, it’s like he knows exactly what to do and I never had to say anything. That and the small kids I’ve been around at church cling and hug like I was a close family member. I’ve never had so much wonder about how I could go from never being hugged, always getting negative attention, being told I was hated and was worth nothing, to all of the exact opposite things in just one year. When God works miracles like that nothing ever seems boring and everything is very freeing. My life went from severe pain all the time to the point I wanted to die every day to being happy and carefree and even the things I hated don’t bother me at all anymore. Can’t say there isn’t still pain but even then God’s wonder always kicks in right when I need it. So he never really does get boring and no one should ever be so serious that they forget what it was like to be young.