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Thanks for your kind words.
I do think that the mystical aspect of life is something that the rest of our society does a very poor job dealing with.
What you call "child-like faith and wonder" is a very special thing. It's something I've experienced many times and something that I don't want to lose.
Yet mysticism detached from a guidebook like religion gets really wacky really fast. This maybe something very useful that religion does for us: it let's us experience the mystical with some tried and true guidelines.
St Francis, or at least the stories we tell about him, was a great mix of mystical and practical. I am offput by a purely material view of the world, but I also am not sure how to find the mystical again.
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Thanks for sharing. I am praying for you. I know that might sound trite but I have found that thinkers wrestle with faith, God, and religious institutions. It's a journey that has not yet ended for you.
In recent years (I have written a bit about this) I have been trying to learn more about Christian history and what I have found is that much of modern Christianity has been really infected with enlightenment thinking materialism that robs us of the mystical and spiritual. I'm still on the journey but there's a thread that we can lose sight of. Jesus. For much of my life I focused on the disagreements in Christian tradition but today I can see more clearly the common threads. I pray that the Holy Spirit with rekindle that child like faith and wonder that Jesus praised in his time on earth.