When was the last time you felt "awe?"

Genuine awe is experienced all too rarely. It's what we feel when we become aware of a numinous presence (a term coined by Rudolf Otto, who died the year I was  born). It's an intensely spiritual feeling.

C.S.Lewis, in his autobiography, Surprised by Joy, gave it a different connotation, but he was talking about the same thing. (A book worth reading, but seekers will need to filter out the religious content if they want to find the spiritual essence.)

For me the last time I experienced that level of awe was about 1970. It's an experience I'll never forget. I wrote a poem about it a few years later, but I won't quote that here. It's personal.

But since then I've experienced shadows of awe (nobody who has experienced the real thing would confuse the shadows with the reality) while watching the night sky, or sitting on a cliff contemplating the ocean, or walking through the mountains.

But you asked about the last time. That would probably be in the late 1990s in the Australian Alps.

Everyday i call my cat when she is outside and she answers to her name motormouth its funny people laugh but she is running

I feel awe when I spend time with my grandchildren, when I see just how great parents my kids are with their kids, when I look at a beautiful sunset, when I sit back and enjoy the laughter at my dinner table when family and friends come to visit, when I ride my motorcycle, ... Jeeze ... The list is endless. I feel awe when I  think about all the blessings in my life. 

I experienced awe when I was walking in the clouds while visiting Taiwan. My friends took me on a hike very early one morning. After walking up hill for about 3 hours we went and sat in a small four poster, no walls hut and watched the sun rise. As it rose I realized we were well above the clouds.  It was awesome. However the greatest awe was witnessing the birth of my children. 

awesome?