Recapture the Wonder

by Ravi Zacharias

When the apostle Paul was in prison he wrote to his spiritual son, Timothy, asking for his cloak and his books. How often have we read or heard that it was the books or thoughts from their reading that helped a person in dire straits in prison or in a situation of danger to survive and triumph through the situation? G.K.Chesterton was once asked for the one thing he would want if he were stranded on an island with no hope of any outside rescue. His answer was as practical as his wit:“Why, a book on boat building, of course!” If wonder is to be retained in our mind, reading and reading well is indispensable to the imagination and the heart. Good reading is like looking for something you have lost and finding it, but in the search finding something else that had also been lost. That is how wonder is constantly replenished.