Awe Doesn't Announce Itself — It Interrupts You | Passed By | Daniel Gertson & Britney Carrasco

We tend to think we have to go chasing awe — book the trip, stand at the Grand Canyon, wait for something big enough to move us. But awe rarely announces itself. More often it interrupts us: a toddler obsessed with helicopters, the impossible ordinary work of learning to hold a fork, the trillions of living things quietly keeping us alive. In a guest week framed as a conversation rather than a sermon, Daniel and Britney pick up last week's invitation to slow down and add one small shift — tuning our attention so we can actually catch the wonder that's already all around us. Drawing on the Hebrew idea of awe (yirah, often flattened into "fear of the Lord") and on the way Jesus kept stopping to see the overlooked, they make the case that awe and God's presence are never far off. We just have to reorient and remember they're right there.

In this episode:

- Why awe interrupts us rather than waits for us — and what it asks of us when it does

- Finding wonder in the everyday: a daughter's "hub-bub-bub," messy first bites, the microbes in your own gut

- Reframing awe through the Hebrew yirah: how small and how deeply held we are at the same time

- The widow's two coins (Luke 21) — that Jesus even noticed her at all

- Blind Bartimaeus (Mark 10) — Jesus stopping the crowd to see the most overlooked person there

- A challenge for the week: hold the shift, remember God is "just a moment away," and let awe send you out to love well

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