Daily writing prompt

Tell us about the last thing you got excited about.

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I woke up this morning with observations about astonishment dancing in my head. The more I paid attention to them, the more excited I became. After about an hour of lying in bed and listening to those incredible thoughts, I got up and wrote the following words. After posting them on Facebook and coming to WordPress, I saw today’s writer’s prompt. I am excited to share today’s amazement with my blog readers.

Learn To Be Flabbergasted! (Even By Little Things) Rediscover Your Lost Marvels

When we let explanations eliminate astonishment and we allow understanding to undermine amazement, we lose our sense of wonder and appreciation. That’s why illusionists don’t explain their tricks. They want their audience to walk away in awe, not to walk away from awe.

Explanations can tell us how the different aspects of the human body function, but they can’t make us treasure our existence. However, amazement and astoundment wake us up to significance, purpose, and calling. Marvelment matters. If you’ve lost your marvels search your heart until you rediscover the sensitivity of your childhood wonder years and it unleashes fountains of joy within you. Little by little cultivate the ability to receive, enjoy, and appreciate astonishment in the way that a little child does. (Luke 18:17)