For my wife, my rednoW friends, and anyone else who actively cultivates a sense of wonder…

The man with a sense of awe feels an ultimate mystery in everything that lives. He grows aware that the living, creative Spirit must be greater than all created life. Man stands amazed and awed before the tree in the might of its life, before the living bubbling spring, beneath the life-giving rays of sun and stars, and amid the fertility of the earth and its life. Into a heart shaken and moved by all this there falls the demand that above all this mighty life, the great God of creation must rule in undisputed power.

Eberhard Arnold, Inneland (184), quoted in A Testimony to Church Community from His Life and Writings (37-38).

The starfish photo comes from the beach near Lincoln City, Oregon at low tide last week.