WONDER PRACTICE DECK Practices for noticing and perceiving God’s presence and joining in the unfolding promise and possibility of God’s Kingdom.
Welcome to the Wonder Practice Deck Wonder is our year-long spiritual practice at Princeton United Methodist Church: learning, by God’s grace, to perceive as Christ does and participate in God’s unfolding Kingdom. This expanding deck offers practices for wonder throughout the worship year and long beyond it.
HABIT
INVITATION
FOUNDATION
Simple practices to weave into everyday life
Practices that invite focused time, attention, or response
Core spiritual practices to learn and return to
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Make It Your Own These practices arrive in the rhythm of our worship year. They are time-keyed, but not time-bound. Return to a practice whenever the Spirit draws your attention. Keep the deck together, or take it apart. Move a card to the front, tuck it into your Bible or journal, or carry it with you for a while. Practice in silence, or respond in writing. Use the cards on your own, with a spiritual friend or small group, or around the family table. There is no “right” way through this deck. Let the practices become companions as you develop a posture of wonder: noticing, perceiving, imagining, and participating with God.
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Acknowledgments The Wonder Practice Deck was conceived and developed by Rev. Jenny Smith Walz and designed and written collaboratively with Rev. Christina Lelache. Editorial and developmental assistance by ChatGPT, OpenAI.
Wonder Practice Deck © 2026 Princeton United Methodist Church. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. Scripture quotations from the COMMON ENGLISH BIBLE. © Copyright 2011 COMMON ENGLISH BIBLE. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Scripture quotations marked MSG are taken from The Message, copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson. Used by permission of NavPress. All rights reserved. Represented by Tyndale House Publishers. Additional credits, sources, and acknowledgments as the deck grows: princetonumc.org/wonder.
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