Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. — José Ortega y Gasset
This universe is full of marvels. No one can begin to count them. Science, using advanced technology, uncovers more wonders of nature all the time. And for every one science explains, a dozen more come along to excite and baffle us. Even so, some of us, worshipping facts, tend to make a religion of science even when the “facts” keep changing. We would do better to make a religion of what science can’t even begin to explain. When we deaden our curiosity and abandon our sense of wonder, we lose touch with our Maker.
What a pity. For it is by observing the miracles of nature, the imponderables, that we can begin — just barely — to get a sense of the majesty of creation and the Force behind it. It’s when we realize there’s no way we can understand, that a glimmer of wisdom comes. And, if we’re lucky, a sense of awe.
Today I will yield to wonder and give thanks that I am part of something bigger than I can imagine.
Hazelden Foundation
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