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Return to Wonder by Arthur Gordon
Arthur Gordon says that the key to joy is to reawaken the gift of childlike wonder. He shares a lifetime of his own small, wonderful memories and encourages you to reach back and recall the treasured moments of your own experience.
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First published December 12, 1951
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July 5, 2021
If I could give this book 10 stars I would! There’s something in Arthur Gordon’s writings that touch my soul and speak to me deeply. His decades earlier book A TOUCH OF WONDER may be my most favorite book ever. This book is like it, but instead of a younger man writing about the more present wonders in life, Gordon writes here as a man in his eighties looking back over his life and the memories and wonders of the past that come to mind.
If ever I met a soulmate in an author, in a book, it is Arthur Gordon and how he views life and the wonders so many of us are prone to overlook. He reminds us in the most serene and engaging stories.
This book is worth your time, as are his earlier books. He died at age 89 (almost 90) in 2002.
If ever I met a soulmate in an author, in a book, it is Arthur Gordon and how he views life and the wonders so many of us are prone to overlook. He reminds us in the most serene and engaging stories.
This book is worth your time, as are his earlier books. He died at age 89 (almost 90) in 2002.
July 7, 2017
If I could have given this book 4.5, it may have been more accurate, but only for reason of comparison to its predecessor.
When the Gospel speaks of receiving the kingdom of God as a child, I have to believe that retaining the sense of wonder we were all given as children, and often loose as enlightened adults, is a vital part of this instruction. To which Arthur Gordon has lived out remarkably in his writings. This book was written when Gordon was well into his 80s, and his contagious sense of wonder shines through just as brightly as it did 22 years prior
Whenever life seems to loose it's magic, I am extremely grateful for books such as these. I would sum up Gordons writings in these books with a quote he stumbled across on a tombstone which he mentions in "A touch of Wonder":
"Forever she looked for good, and forever she found it".
When the Gospel speaks of receiving the kingdom of God as a child, I have to believe that retaining the sense of wonder we were all given as children, and often loose as enlightened adults, is a vital part of this instruction. To which Arthur Gordon has lived out remarkably in his writings. This book was written when Gordon was well into his 80s, and his contagious sense of wonder shines through just as brightly as it did 22 years prior
Whenever life seems to loose it's magic, I am extremely grateful for books such as these. I would sum up Gordons writings in these books with a quote he stumbled across on a tombstone which he mentions in "A touch of Wonder":
"Forever she looked for good, and forever she found it".
December 17, 2013
ALSO, MY FAVORITE READ.
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