Wonder Class: Session 2

Week 2 of 'Amazed: Living a Life Full of Wonder'

We reviewed the main points of last week, and people shared stories of moments they were reminded that we can live like God is in the room. There were so many fun stories! Week 1 Information

Remember that one of our goals is to live with more and more of an awareness that God literally is found in our everyday lives. He's written all over creation. Our humanity understands a physical reality. We experience time, temperature, states of matter, and as we grow up, we begin to need the safety of anything we can know to the degree that mystery, imagination and our other core reality can become difficult for us to inhabit. The problem is...our humanity is also eternal!! We cannot know the extent of a fully human life without embracing our First Story. (The death and dying process referred to in another blog reveal evidence of this.) Our physical and rational reality exists within and is infused with the reality of God. We can...and are designed to...interact with Him ALL THE TIME. And...we can use our physical senses and our individual wiring of talents and abilities to do so.

Hence...the Multiple Intelligences.

But before we go into that... :)

One thing I will say...in doing any everyday exercise of experiencing God and ascribing wonder to Him...it doesn't need to be as "difficult" as our rational mind can tell us. C.S. Lewis reminds us of simple gratitude. "I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation." The experience of things that we find amazing (even the simple things) can actually become worship when we give God thanks in the moment. "Thanks" as though He's in the room!!!...because He is! Other practical exercises include asking yourself what you are thinking about in the moment, what it reminds you of, what you are feeling, what you imagine, etc...and then turning that into a praise of sorts. It's actually rather fun. :)

Back to the Intelligences...

It is wise for any educator to understand the Multiple Intelligences (See Howard Gardner for more information) because it helps you to understand the ways that students learn and thus the ways to make your content relevant to their reality. What it also helps is experiencing God! You are already wired with some modes of understanding. They are unique to you...and God speaks to you in them.

I've included a link for a free assessment. Find out your top 3 and then spend some time in one of those strengths and give God some praise in your awareness of Him.

Multiple Intelligences Test

Here's how one of my "Intelligences" gets turned into Wonder...