Featured Resource: In Stories of Awe and Abundance, a collection of short pieces about everyday spirituality, Sister Jose Hobday reveals her self to be an amazingly gifted practitioner of wonder.

Other takes on wonder:

• David Adam salutes the practices of wonder and mystery as essential to spirituality.

• Michael Babcock edits this stunning retrospective of shamanic art by Susan Seddon Boulet that elicits wonder.

• Gary David Comstock gathers mystical poems of wonder and unity by Walt Whitman.

• Annie Dillard composes an incomparable memoir recounting her experience of growing up with wonder in Pittsburgh during the 1950s and 1960s.

• Frederick Franck delineates the Zen of seeing the world with wonder.

• Robert Fulghum challenges us to pay attention to the wonder moments in our daily lives.

• Andrew M. Greeley celebrates wonder and imagination as keys to the Kingdom of God.

• Jane Hirshfield's essays on the meaning and magnificence of poetry are filled with wonder.

• Roger Housden tutors us in ways to open the heart, mind, body, and soul to the wonders that become apparent during sacred journeys.

• Barbara Kingsolver's searing collection of 23 essays that opens our hearts and minds to uncomfortable truths about the American way of life.

• Ted Kooser moves through a Nebraska year and finds wonders all around.

• Claire Krulikowski's sense of wonder comes alive on a trip to India, especially during a visit to the Ganges.

• Thomas Locker surveys environmentalist John Muir's love of the wildness in wilderness.

• Stephanie Mills shows how simplicity includes wonder and pleasure and attunement to the small details of existence.

• Janell Moon's imaginative resource can be used as a spur to creativity, self-examination, and wonder.

• John A. Murray edits a collection of nature essays drawing out a sense of wonder.

• Mary Oliver's seven-part book length poem abounds with the wonders of fish and fowl, plant and landscape.

• Parker J. Palmer presents wonder-filled insights into the joys of teaching and learning.

• Chet Raymo's breviary of prayers and meditations inspired by nature reveal his highly developed sense of wonder.

• Seraphim Sigrist's fine primer on the important spiritual practice of wonder.

• James Thornton relies heavily upon wonder as he explores a soulful way of being in a rapidly changing world.

• Nicki Verploegen Vandergrift sees wonder as one of the catalysts to finding spiritual vitality in everyday life.

• Esther de Waal's spiritual retreat for those yearning to see the world and themselves afresh.

• Macrina Wiederkehr's exquisite devotional work with meditations on wonder, hope, love, mystery, and faith.

• Nancy Willard's collection of poems about the manifold delights and charms of the natural world.

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In No Nature: New and Selected Poems Gary Snyder has chosen material from eight earlier collections. He possesses a watchful and elegant mind that has been tutored by Native American sensitivities, Zen proclivities, and wilderness experiences. The poems in this volume will teach you how to sit still, read signs, and sense in your bones the poetics of place. Snyder has crossed many borders, and these poems bring us fresh wonders.

• Wendell Berry exudes wonder in the presence of a bucket that is hosting the process of creating dirt.

• Frederick Franck takes his hat off to wonder as a way of truly seeing what is going on all around us.

• Parker J. Palmer admonishes us to look at the world with eyes wide with wonder.

• In a poem titled "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?" Walt Whitman finds wonder to be a lens through which to view the world.

• Rabbi Rami Shapiro reveals that the path of Wisdom in the Bible as a path of wonder.

• In A Season in the Desert, W. Paul Jones presents a story about the wonders he saw from an Atlanta elevator.

• In Spring Forward, the characters discover that experiencing the beauty of nature is like living in a poem.