Allowing Ourselves to Be Amazed

When was the last time you were truly amazed? Amazement and awe are often precursors for joy. Pastor John has been thinking about how we can incite more joy in our lives and what are the needed practices. For starters, it helps to pay attention, which he wasn’t doing when Pastor John first met Major General (Ret. Marines) Charles F. Bolden, former astronaut and NASA Administrator. In this episode, John shares some awesome life lessons learned from the former astronaut, awesome encounters in the Scriptures, and how awe and wonder in our life leads to better health and overall awesomeness. (Check out Dacher Keltner’s Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How it Can Transform Your Life). As amazement goes in search of telling others, appropriately features “Go Tell It On the Mountain” (Will Coulam, Saxophone). (Some of this content was featured at our December 17, 2023 service.)