"Our world seems to have lost all sense of reverence.

We seldom even use the word anymore.

The notion of reverence is full of riches

that we now need desperately."

~ John O'Donohue

Reverence is more than the bowed heads, 
bent knees, and hushed voices we associate with deep respect and deference. 

 Albert Schweitzer described reverence in a way that makes me picture a giant rainbow, the sweeping arch of colors we see in the sky after a rainfall, and in the tiny, fairy-like spectrums we see in dew drops resting on blades of grass in morning sunlight, because, like white light holding all the colors, reverence holds all the qualities of goodness.  

"Wisdom begins in wonder," said Socrates.
"Everything, even darkness and silence, has wonder," said Helen Keller.
"The more I wonder, the more I love." said Alice Walker.
According to Albert Einstein, wonder is the source of all true art and science.

"Without it we are as good as dead," he said.

If only we could experience wonder like we did as children.

Let' s try, with love,
Charlene