Sacred Curiosity

How curious would it be to consider others as you would contemplate a good poem, a glass of wine, or a painting at a museum. To speed through lines of poetry or to breeze past a work of art, to gulp a fine vino, is to miss the mystery that beckons us to pause, to look and to listen. When we have the opportunity to interact with someone we disagree with - or someone who is different than us in culture, gender, background, personality, experience, etc - let's first lean in with a curious desire to learn rather than default to skepticism, assessing, judging and correcting.

Having been both the perpetrator and the recipient of poisonous behavior and words I’m left to ask myself: Wouldn’t our world be more whole if we were to contemplate people with a sacred curiosity?

“...Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves...” NASB