The congregation’s theme of the month for December is WONDER. AndI wonder if you’d join me in a daily Wonder practice for the month of December: Set the intention to notice at least one moment of wonder as it arises in your daily life. Make a note of it (on your phone, in a journal, on your laptop).

Or, use this practice from Soul Matters (resources from UU religious professionals).

In either case, if you’d like to share your experiences, insights and questions about WONDER, it would be WONDER-full to hear from you (via email or text).

May we all have (and notice) a wonder-filled December!

Here’s the Soul Matters Wonder practice:

Take A Daily Dose of Online Wonder

We most often talk about the giant, single-moment spiritual transformations that awe ignites in us. For instance, witnessing a solar eclipse, after which our entire view of Life/Spirit/Mystery/God and ourselves was transformed.

These once-in-a-lifetime infusions of wonder are great, but most of us wouldn’t mind a little daily shot of wonder too. Every single day must of us get stuck in our heads. Every afternoon we feel more numb than we’d like. And every evening it’s hard to put our petty, self-centered worries into wider perspective. In the midst of all this, who doesn’t long for a bit of daily wonder to wake us up?!

So this month, let’s give ourselves the gift of a daily dose of wonder. Think of it as taking a regular “Awe Break.” Every day, put everything down for just a few minutes and let wonder soak in.

To help, we’ve put together 31 online doses of wonder: One wonder-filled YouTube video for each of the 31 days of December. It’s a lot like those advent calendars some of us had as kids. We’d peel back the cardboard door, discover some magical new gift and our entire day would be transformed.

If you’re having a particularly hard day, feel free to watch a couple of them. The goal is to see if daily doses of wonder really change your days. We bet they do!

Please share the videos with friends/members without online access!

Here’s the link to the YouTube playlist with all 31 Wonder videos: