Wonder
"Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and He gave it to me." - Abraham Joshua Heschel Yesterday I dropped off my seven-year-old son Jacob at camp. It's his first sleepaway camp experience--just a half a week this time. To say that he was excited about the prospect of going to camp was perhaps the understatement of all understatements. He filled the car with chatter about what he was hoping. "Do you think I'll make some friends at camp? I would really like to make some friends." "Will we go swimming in the river? I hope we can. How do you swim in a river?" "I hope I get to use my sleeping bag on a campout. That would be cool." When we arrived at his cabin and were setting up his bunk, he climbed up and down it like a monkey, exclaiming how awesome it was. One of the kids in the cabin mentioned that he had brought his Bible....