That is that radical, life-changing proposition of the first Christians. Billy Unsoeld was on the first American team to climb Mount Everest. He has written about how, when returning from the peak, with all the physical labor required and all of the exhilaration and the constant sense of danger in the next step, he had come up the edge of a precipice and planted himself to rest and admire the view. Turning around, in the vastness of that place, he saw a tiny blue flower in the snow. I don't know how long I sat there, it could have been minutes, but it could well have been hours.
Wonder is the undoing of pat answers.
It's the rescue from the rut of ordinary thinking and living. It's the healing of old hurts, and it's the view from the top. And it's the first gift of membership in any church with its eyes open. By grace, ours are. When you have been invited and go reluctantly, and it turns out to be the best party ever, that's a wonder.