As former Beatle George Harrison asked decades ago, "What is life?"
     To this, Russian poet Arseny Tarkovsky has an answer.  "Life is a wonder of wonders," he writes, "and to wonder I dedicate myself."  This of course leads us to another question: what is wonder?
     Wonder can be an experience, or it can be a question.  We all marvel at things we experience, we all ponder what we cannot know or understand.  Such is intrinsic to our humanness.  This in turn leads to yet another question:  why are we this way?  Was it evolutionarily advantageous?  Or is it the work of a greater intelligence in us?  Or both?
     We are surely better off to be able to wonder.  Yet if we ascribe our penchant solely to evolutionary advantage, we still do not know what caused our ancestors to grab onto wonder; what prior structures would have had to be in our brains?  On the other hand, if we plant our sense of wonder in the work of God, we still are left with "wondering" why God so designed us.  What was working in him to do so?
     Maybe God is more like us than we think.  Maybe we are how we are because God, in his way, is like us.  We see this in our history, we see this in the creation.  And we see it in the person of Jesus.
     And this makes all the difference.