Here is one of the best descriptions of awe I’ve come across.

Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.

Awe is a sense for the transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine,…to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple; to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal. What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.

–Abraham Joshua Heschel

I want to experience more awe in my life. This is one reason I have returned to my faith journey. Actually, I’m beginning to understand that I’ve always been on it, even during those years I was actively pursuing understanding through secular education and avoiding religion, especially Christianity. God’s imprint is on my soul. S/He has always been here, within me. I am simply re-awakening to this gnosis.