Scripps Sunday #140

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Anna, 

First of all, this was the word of the day for Grateful Living yesterday which is so appropriate for the week ahead: 

"Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak. It means acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart."

Brenda Shaughnessy

Secondly, Katherine shared this post about Neal's new song that came out on May 9th, and I listened to it after my night run (in the wee hours of Saturday morning) and was in tears. It's such a beautiful song, and it seems perfect for this week ahead (with your naked brunch yesterday, your house wedding today, your Cactus to Clouds hike, your creek time, your meals with friends, and family coming in for graduation). 


https://youtu.be/TdegOeGY__c?si=XXZ-X1fIMZwQvOfg

This Holy Moment 

we ran outside to catch the colors of the sunset 

to drink it in like it's communion wine 

we put our feet in the mountain stream beside us 

filled up both our souls from deep inside 

my arm around my daughter 

we were speaking without saying 

so close that in the stillness she must have heard me praying 

keep me right here Lord in this holy moment 

hands full of heaven and eyes full of wonder

 knowing I can let go and not worry where time is going 

so keep me right here Lord in this holy moment now 

in this holy moment now 

we waited in and drifted out to deeper waters 

talked and laughed like we always did 

I was just a son and he was just my father 

these moments are the easy ones to miss

and somehow we both knew

cause love goes without saying surrender to the praying 

keep me right here Lord in this holy moment 

hands full of heaven and eyes full of wonder

knowing I can let go and not worry where time is going 

so keep me right here in this holy moment now

 in this holy moment now

if every raindrop contains the entire ocean 

forever is right here it is too big to hold it 

i can't tell where we end and the glory begins cause the space

between us is far too thin 

keep me right here Lord in this holy moment 

hands full of heaven and eyes full of wonder 

knowing I can let go and not worry where time is going

so keep me right here Lord in this holy moment now

in this holy moment now

in this holy moment now


From Neal Carpenter's Instagram post this weekend: 

"New song! This Holy Moment was inspired by this video I found on my phone I took the last time I ever swam in the ocean with my dad.

Death is awful and not the way things are supposed to be. I am grateful, however, that I had the mercy of knowing what was ahead for my dad and tried to document as many beautiful moments as I could during those two years before he passed away. I wish I could treat every moment of life like I treated these. I know I want to.

My dad’s favorite place to talk and catch up with me was in the ocean. It was a beach trip ritual and something we did many times over the years.

This particular moment my parents were swimming and laughing and as I filmed them suddenly my dad said he couldn’t touch the bottom any longer. He was starting to drift out a bit and my mom was feeling concerned. My dad, however wasn’t concerned at all. He was in for whatever was happening.

At the same time I knew this would likely be the last time I ever swam in the ocean with my dad and that he was slowly slipping away. Slipping away from this life and me, while drifting into a vast, deep ocean of God’s love and goodness." 

Check this out to see the video of his dad swimming in the ocean 
https://www.nealcarpenter.net/


This is my prayer for you in the coming days: 

"keep me right here Lord in this holy moment 

hands full of heaven and eyes full of wonder

 knowing I can let go and not worry where time is going 

so keep me right here Lord in this holy moment now 

in this holy moment now"





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