Day 1 - Wonder

 Wednesday 17th February 2021

O Lord, our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory above the heavens.
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,

the moon and the stars that you have established;
what are human beings that you are mindful of them…?
Yet you have made them a little lower than God,
and crowned them with glory and honour…
you have put all things under their feet…

O Lord, our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name in all the earth! (Psalm 8: 1, 3-6, 9)
 

Wonder, like reverence, is not for grasping to suit our own ends or needs. It requires a certain surrender, a self-forgetting. It is about paying attention to what is already present but too easily unnoticed. It’s perfected in the eyes of a

child in which everything is new and fascinating. It takes practice but it is all there waiting for us. “When I look…”

(Extract from Dust & Glory by David Runcorn)

 

For Reflection

Think of something – perhaps a favourite landscape, flower or local scene. Focus on it and for a few minutes give it your undivided attention. Give thanks to God for the wonderful things with which he surrounds you.

 

Remember in your prayers

The local environment, the foreshore, the hills, the parks, the forests, the gardens, and the promise of new life embodied in the miracle of a new baby.