A Renaissance of Wonder

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by SamIam

I think most of us remain too caught up in the day to day to spend much time on the eternal dream. . . I did have an amazing experience once of the miracle and magic of life. It lasted about 4 days and then, alas, vanished.

Had something like that once myself -- a high-quality religious retreat known as Cursillo. Of WW2 Spanish Catholic origin, there's an Instructional Eucharist, sundry lectures/seminars, very large dinners, and all in all an awareness that it seems to pick the best of religious retreats and incorporate this quality stuff into theirs. Cursillistas also end up learning to sing De Colores and Las Mañanitas.

It too runs four days... and for a week and more thereafter, I woke in the morning smiling. That is not my usual wakeup face.

It is not vanished wholly from memory... it's about time to attend one of those afterwards-meetings, with a eucharist, that they call Grand Ultreyas again.