We often see dogs looking puzzled sometimes golums but we love to see another person being amazed. It is a wonderful expression. I had a surprise party recently and I was in the mood we classify as wonder. Now the idea of surprise however silly or shocking, it is the presence of wonder that makes us like something. If there was no wonder in an event we rarely go back to it. But more over the fact of us brooding over an event or a time of our lives we find a pleasure or a cool feeling that brings goosebumps when we think of a time we were caught in the pleasing wonder. C S Lewis tells in the final battle about such a wonder. He says it like this, "there is a happiness that makes you serious". Seriously? What could this happiness be about? Is it just a simple joke or does this have something to do with the core of our being ? Is it pride - like in winning a battle? I long to be that joyful then. And this reason does keep me wondering how costly life is.
....giving up all that inferior stuff so I could know Christ personally