C.S. Lewis helps awaken us to the “astonishing realness of things.” It’s what Alan Jacobs calls an “omnivorous attentiveness” — a bewildering awareness of the things all around us. It is being alive to what is, to things that “if we didn’t have them we would pay a million dollars to get them, and having them, we ignore.”
In this short excerpt, John Piper invites us into seeing the world a certain way. He calls us to wake up to the wonder, and be freed from the slumber of self-absorption.
Related Resources
Alive to Wonder: Celebrating the Influence of C. S. Lewis (book)
The Romantic Rationalist: God, Life, and Imagination in the Work of C. S. Lewis (book)
Lessons from an Inconsolable Soul (message)