It usually takes a child or child-imagination that stops us from our every day motions/routines and causes us to stare. Stare at things in a different shade/angle/eyes. Stare at the things that either once gave us wonder or even at the things that have never evoked much thought at all. This stopping and staring at the old and finding the new is a glimpse into our divinity and true connectedness to this world.
We are a part of the whole. We are connected and it is marvelous. Rain falls from the clouds, gives us the ability to grow food, and then quickly evaporates back into the sky only to fall again. The raindrops, the clouds, the vegetables are all connected to our life.
We are the disconnect! We are the ones who are out of touch with our surroundings. Instead of finding the wonder within our daily lives we now need bigger, louder and faster forms of stimulants. We have come to believe that we can’t afford the time and energy to stop and stare because that might be labeled unproductive, idle, or wasteful. The stampede is coming so we have to keep moving.
But finding the new is there for the asking. Finding the new begins within each of us. It truly all depends on how we see our world. We are born with this sense of wonder and awe but typically over time we have unlearned the abilities of being amazed at the mundane or been told that other things are more valuable/profitable.
It is an unlearning of our daily habits and recovery from an addiction to our hyper sensationalized culture and developing new sets of discipline that transform us into seekers of the new and finding the innate holiness that is in all. This is the gift that we are given we just have to be willing to truly look and we will find. I hope that like a child we might all learn to stop and stare more and more and more and more, it’s not a waste of time.
nathanclark
