“Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.”
― Tierney Gearon
What familiar thing is an ongoing source of wonder?
Repurposed
When is an airplane not an airplane? When it’s serving as a house. With sufficient inventiveness, items transform into entirely new versions of themselves. Every so often, people do as well.
How have you transformed an item—or yourself—into something unexpected and new?
Christmas
What could be more unexpected than the notion God would be manifest on earth, not in great power and might, but rather as a helpless baby?
When have you found salvation or healing from an unexpected source?
Cookies for Santa
I’m sure that Santa appreciates all the cookies that are left out for him on Christmas Eve, but I can’t help thinking that he gets an awful lot of cookies, and might occasionally hope for something different.
What unexpected thing would you leave to delight Santa?
Art
“Art must take reality by surprise. ”
― Francoise Sagan
How has a work of art given you a new perspective on reality?