Holy Now @ Agape on 2/8/09

Faith Rivera Online Xmas Concert w/ heart!
Tuesday 12/20/2011 at 7pm PST
http://tinyurl.com/webconcert

Celebrating Christmas in Stories & Song! As a new mom, I'm excited to share special songs about my bundle of joy including "Welcome Baby" that I co-wrote with the amazing Karen Drucker & a xmas song or two. I'll be joined by my dear friend & stellar vocalist/artist/vocal coach (he's my teacher), Gerald White! Join me for what I hope will be the first of monthly musical concerts online :)

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
Everything is holy now

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[FaithRivera]

@TrueLightTracey You're welcome! This song has meant so much to me too - as you can tell by the end of the song :) So powerful for all of us!

[TrueLightTracey]

I was there at Agape this day. It was one of the most powerful Spiritual moment of my life. Thank you for posting it.

<3

[threethreenine]

just what was needed just now to remind me of the beauty and the mystery

[priscg]

wow wow wow... can't wait to see you on Sept. 30th 2010!!! (in Abilene, TX)

[hulaizlif]

thank you Faith for sharimg ypur light wth me this glorious morning!!!!

[2calmmyunquietedmind]

@GilletteWest1959 - Really? He’s from Minnesota? (only a point of curiousity as MN is where my earthly body was born)

It’s a most fantastical mystical magical beautiful song - sung so incredibly that it touches me to the core…

[annmarcum]

That was the most beautiful song I've ever heard. You have a beautiful voice Faith!

[JulieMuse]

Love this, love you!

~Julie & Matt

[GilletteWest1959]

Written by Peter Mayer of Minnesota