Tom Howard on Wonder

Published: Oct. 5, 2009, 9:33 a.m.

This was recorded at the 2009 Rochester Chesterton Society Conference.

\nAs we grow older, we lose our grasp on a sense of wonder in the world.\nWonder is modulated by time and repetition, but there are three cases\nunaffected by time: youth, art and eternity, and it is by studying\nthese three cases where we may reawaken our sense of wonder.
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\nGK Chesterton, CS Lewis and others have commented on how wonder works\nin our lives. CS Lewis, for example, writes that angels cannot truly\ngrasp the wonder in such simple acts as breathing, since they lack a\ncorporeal form. There are many things for men to wonder at in the\nworld, if we would only take the time.