Music Mondays

Christopher Grundy, who wrote the above piece of music, is a professor at Eden Seminary.  This particular song touches my heart.  The opening words, "Holy One may Your presence here."

Right here and right where you are.

We share this moment even as we are separated by social distancing.

The word here is not just a place but a sense that even in the vastness there is an intimacy.

We share this time together even as we are apart.

Here in this place called today, here in this moment called right now.

Here is a powerful and profound word because it reminds us that there is no place and time when/where God is not.  So, by that holy thread we are already tethered together.  We don't think that way, we don't always feel that way.

But here can help us reframe and reorder our understandings.

If here is holy than God's presence can renew and refresh us if only we open our whole lives to that movement (more on that on Wednesday).

I am wondering, what did the words of this music stir within you?

How did the images engage you?

Did you feel peace like a river flow through your soul?

Did you feel the rhythm of your breath relax?

Play the song again...and again...and every time you need to remember here is holy and full to overflowing with traces of God's grace.

Amen.