The sheer ordinariness of things is our cataract. We view our day through a glaze of familiar tasks and objects. Ah yes, another Wednesday. Ah yes, another tree by the side of road, the ten thousandth we have seen and therefore no longer see at all . . . But there have been moments — we cannot deny them — when our world lit up as from a fire within. Perhaps it was the day we first fell in love; or went walking in a majestic forest; or found the solution that had so long eluded us to a problem that plagued our life. Maybe it was the time we took off on a vacation and the very expectation of novelty served as windshielrd wipers for the soul. Suddenly we are able to see afresh. We realize that beauty surrounds us. Hidden at the heart of things we find lessons and reconciliations. A holy spirit, we sense, pervades the world — this world, even with its Wednesdays.
— Drew Leder, Sparks of the Divine