Listen with our Hearts

G. K. Chesterton suggested that our world holds a certain astonishment and fascination,
and that only a world filled with mystery and awe, could adequately account for reality.
Do we as Christians apprehend this fascinating world in which we live?
Do we listen with our hearts, which witness to the world to come?
In his classic, Orthodoxy, Chesterton made this provocative statement
about how Christian orthodoxy provides us with an enchanting view of this present world,
a world full of awe and wonder, a world that points to another.

"How can we be at once astonished at the world and yet at home in it? How can this odd cosmic town. . .give us at once the fascination of a strange town and the comfort and honour of being our own town?. . . . we need this life of practical romance; the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure. We need so to view the world as to combine
as idea of wonder and an idea of welcome. . . . People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy."