Awe

*Photograph: By aeonWAVE / Shutterstock | Totality during the 2023 Australian total solar eclipse in Exmouth

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
-John Milton

Dear Friends,

We all have those big moments, those life changing moments, those experiences in life that create an undeniable sense of awe and wonder.

This weekend my boys and I are headed to Ohio to hopefully see the total solar eclipse, should the weather cooperate with us.  We were in North Carolina for the last total solar eclipse with zero expectation of what the experience would feel like and I, personally, was absolutely blown away.  That experience was, and continues to be, one of my top most transcendent moments of my life.  When the sky got dark I screamed and then started laughing fairly uncontrollably.  My uncontrollable reaction to that experience was so deeply unexpected to me.  It was, and continues to be, an absolutely amazing experience.

Those moments of undeniable awe are amazing and spectacular…but I think John Milton was on to something when he said gratitude allows us to encounter everyday epiphanies…because, let’s be honest here, life isn’t made up of those moments of undeniable awe…they do happen every once in a while, and can be life changing when they do, but they don’t happen on the regular.  Even so, I do think life can be made up of everyday epiphanies.  We all have the ability to notice, to slow down, to find awe as we move through the everyday.

My dear friend, I hope, this week, you are able to find a little more awe in your every day.

Have an awe-filled week.

Love
Krista