Be Enchanted with Living

 

The sun is shining on me and it is a gentle reminder that God is always there.

There are moments when a simple phrase rises in the heart like a small gift. Recently, one came to me with surprising clarity: Be enchanted with living.

At first it felt almost too delicate, too whimsical. But the more I sat with it, the more I recognized something deeply Christian in its invitation.

To be enchanted with living is not to escape reality or to pretend life is always easy. It is to awaken again to the truth that the world is not flat, mechanical, or empty. It is to remember that creation is alive with meaning because God is alive within it.

Catholic writers often speak of our age as “disenchanted,” a time when mystery has been pushed aside in favor of efficiency, noise, and distraction. Yet the Christian imagination has always insisted on something more. It sees the world as sacramental, charged with grace, shimmering with the presence of God even in the ordinary.

Gerard Manley Hopkins captured this when he wrote, “The world is charged with the grandeur of God.” That line has echoed through centuries because it names what our souls know: life is not dull. It is radiant. 

To be enchanted with living, then, is to let that radiance register again. 

It is the quiet decision to notice beauty.

To pause long enough to receive a moment as gift.

To let wonder soften the places where cynicism has settled.

To believe that God is still speaking through the texture of our days.

Mary lived this way. Scripture tells us she “pondered all these things in her heart.” She moved through her life with a contemplative attentiveness, awake to God’s movement in the small and the hidden. Hers was a holy enchantment, not fantasy, but faith sharpened into wonder. We can live that way too.

To be enchanted with living is to see the world as God sees it: radiant with meaning, alive with grace, full of invitations to notice His nearness. It is a way of stepping back into the sacredness of the everyday.

Perhaps this is the quiet call for this season of my life, and maybe yours as well.

Not to chase extraordinary moments, but to let the ordinary become extraordinary again.

Not to wait for life to impress us, but to l et our hearts be open enough to be moved.

Be enchanted with living. Let it be a prayer, a posture, a way of seeing. Let it be the gentle reawakening of wonder.

Here are a few closing Scriptures for further study and reflection, they're contemplative, rooted in wonder, and aligned with the theme of re‑enchantment. Each one reinforces the idea that life is radiant because God is present within it.

Psalm 27:13

“I believe that I shall see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.”

Seeing God’s goodness here, in this life, in the ordinary.

Psalm 104:24

“How manifold are your works, O Lord; in wisdom you have made them all.”

A beautiful echo of creation as wonder-filled and intentional.

Luke 2:19

“But Mary treasured all these things and pondered them in her heart.”

Mary's holy enchantment with God’s movement in daily life.

Psalm 34:8

“Taste and see that the Lord is good.”

Short, sensory, and sacramental. A gentle call to awaken to God’s goodness.