Sacrament

Every action of ours should be a prayer..a sacrament in the world.." 

Martin Buber

I've even wrestling with this line all day.  After reading about the family in OK being killed by their 19 year old son,  a family we knew well when we were in Duncan, I've been trying to raise a prayer or two.  

What if this was the first thing we taught our children about choices that confront them daily...would this action be a prayer? a sacrament in the world...a link to the Holy...how might that inform their choices?   

What if we did that too..let every action be a prayer. ..  If you think over the day you had yesterday...or the day that is just before you...how might that sentence inform your choices?  

What if that were a part of the measure we held up to our day?  

Could you do that for One day?    Would you try to do that?  Not just floating through the day...but consciously taking one step after another...being a prayer...being a sacrament.

Let's try.. Starting tomorrow...o God hear our Prayer. 

God abided

Bobbie Giltz McGarey 

ABQ, NM

@2014 

Living in Albuquerque
Mountains frame my world
Weather changes by the moment
Reminding us all we can do is be Here Now.

God abides.
Bobbie McGarey
@2014
ABQ, NM

new mexico life
huge sky blue and very high
easy to believe

wind blown trees sing
with sunshine it still seems warm
but chill still in air

thoughts of loved one gone
fill eyes with bittersweet tears
one more missing now

feeling older now
wanting more time to share love
precious now is mine

life breath joy peace hope
wash over me and heal heart
ready now here we go

Beauty

Thursday, November 1, 2007
Beauty

Ok the people around here are tired of me saying...OHH look at that tree it's so beautiful in the fall colors.
Gabriela Mistral writes. : Beauty is the shadow of God on the universe.

Wow, even that takes my breath away. It is so great. It is amazing that we walk by beauty.
I know this is short...but I'm going to go out and see the trees in the morning.


God abides
Bobbie Giltz McGarey
@2007

Beauty

Ok the people around here are tired of me saying...OHH look at that tree it's so beautiful in the fall colors.
Gabriela Mistral writes. : Beauty is the shadow of God on the universe.

Wow, even that takes my breath away. It is so great. It is amazing that we walk by beauty.
I know this is short...but I'm going to go out and see the trees in the morning.


God abides
Bobbie Giltz McGarey
@2007

rolling mountains

the hills turned to mountains
like waves on the ocean
stretching out to the horizon
lighted by the sun
valleys and farmland
deep flowing rivers
green and the reds and the yellows of fall

all of this reaching
deep in my spirit
memories of childhood and camp counselor years

all of us hoping that God is abiding
seeing the sun-set on old rolling hills.

Bobbie Giltz McGarey
@2007
traveling East by plane

The bird sings no one asks why

There is a Gary Larson cartoon with a chicken standing on one side of a road the sign says, "Why not?"


Why do we stand
On one side of the road
and just wait?

We are not chicken
but children of God
who have feet and a will to obey.

It does take some will
to obey the Creator
and do what we were created to be.
It does take some will
to say Your way not mine
and remember the plan that's ahead.

We'd rather stand still
and not do what we're called to
we'd rather be settled and set in our ways.
We confess that with laughter.
Not recognizing our sin there.
Someone else can just do it
we'll stay right here.

There are no excuses
about all the ranting
we do without doing all that we can.
God gave us brains and expects us to use them.
Let's get on going -there's no holding back.

Bobbie Giltz McGarey
@2007