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The Experience of God Ch. 3

In the third chapter of Hart’s Experience of God, he focuses on the experience of wonder. He describes the feeling of awareness one may feel that seems to be coming from nowhere, but in fact it is a familiar feeling that we have knowledge about.
“Not, that is, a simple twinge of curiosity or bafflement regarding some fact out there not yet in one’s possession: if anything, it is the sudden awareness that no mere fact can possibly be an adequate explanation of the mystery in which one finds oneself immersed at every moment.” (87)

                This statement that Hart makes sticks out to me because it is something that some Christians, or at least myself go through from time to time. Sometimes I found myself losing sight of my faith and focusing on other things around me such as work and school, and I forget about the blessings that God has given me in my life. The everyday things that I take for granted such as the opportunity to go to school and a house above my head are things that I forget are a blessing and that many people do not have those same opportunities in other parts of the world. When I start losing myself in the everyday life around me, there are moments that suddenly bring me back to focus and remind me that God is with me. This is the feeling that Hart describes that relates to my life. My personal explanation for the “mystery” that he describes is God. 

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  1. UnknownOctober 12, 2017 at 3:25 PM

    I agree with you. I can become so consumed with outside things that I sometimes forget about God. I sometimes become overwhelmed with the cares of material things and everyday life, but when I remember that I can go to God about my troubles I realize that it is not as bad as it could be.

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