ʻSonder is the feeling you experience when you realize that everyone, including strangers passing you in the street, has a life as complex as your own. A life they are constantly living in spite of the fact that I may not be aware of it.ʼ The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows – John Koenig.
The website and blog, A Vivid Life, was created in celebration of sonder! It is Eugene Peterson that reminds us that everyoneʼs life is a story and that even our small-scale domestic stories are vital to Godʼs big story. A truth we find displayed on almost every page of the Bible – a remarkable collection of stories about ordinary people still inspiring us today to live a colourful, radiant, vibrant, strong, bold, deep, rich, warm and vivid life!
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