There is no other song, including any of my own, that moves me in this way & reflects in 4 teeny minutes, my own spiritual journey from distant dogma to a spirituality that is my way of life, that IS my life!

Thank YOU to Peter Mayer for "Holy Now," Paul Beilenberg & the Agape Media team, the incredible Agape House Band, Tim Mcafee-Lewis for helping Rickie Byars Beckwith with Agape's most dynamic music ministry, and finally "The Rev" (Michael Beckwith) who used this song to create a profound sharing, teaching & learning - truly magical experience for all of us & personally, a transformational moment I'll carry with me forever.

Enjoy the video, & please share it! "Holy Now" is available on my new album "Raise Me Up" (produced by the fab Teddy Jacobs) at www.faithrivera.com & on I-Tunes

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HOLY NOW
by Peter Mayer

When I was a girl each week
On Sunday we would go to church
And pay attention to the priest
He would read the holy word
And consecrate the holy bread
And everyone would kneel and bow
Today the only difference is
Everything is holy now
Everything, Everything, Everything is holy now

When I was in Sunday school
We would learn about the time
Moses split the sea in two
Jesus made the water wine
And I remember feeling sad
That miracles don't happen still
But now I can't keep track
'Cause everything's a miracle
Everything, Everything, Everythings a miracle
Everything, Everything, Everythings a miracle

Wine from water is not so small
But an even better magic trick
Is that anything is here at all
So the challenging thing becomes
Not to look for miracles
But finding where there isn't one

When holy water was rare at best
It barely wet my fingertips
But now I have to hold my breath
Cause I'm swimming in a sea of it
It used to be a world half there
Heaven's second rate hand-me-down
But I walk it with a reverent air
'cause everything is holy now
Everything, Everything, Everything is holy now
Everything, Everything, Everything is holy now

Read a questioning child's face
And say it's not a testament
That'd be very hard to say
See another new morning come
And say it's not a sacrament
I tell you that it can't be done

This morning outside I stood
And saw a little red-winged bird
Shining like a burning bush
Singing like a scripture verse.
It made me want to bow my head
I remember when church let out
How things have changed since then
cause everything is holy now
Everything, Everything, Everything is holy now
Everything, Everything, Everything is holy now
Everything, Every little thing, Everything is holy now
Yeah Everything is holy now

Everythings a miracle
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