Thick with God

“Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.”

― Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

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It is easy to make a litany of thanks

to develop (as Beuchner calls it)

an alphabet of grace

thank you thank you thank you

Lord

for everything I can see, hear and touch

for everything I can do

(like jump jumping like a kangaroo – Avery and Marsh)

and I am thankful

for Margaret Louise

for Erin and Bryce (and Ryan and Kim too)

for Mara and Rory

for co-workers

and friends

for those I worship with each Sunday

for Chief Joseph Mountain

for firs and pines

for amorous deer

and audacious turkeys

for hens that lay

and horses that welcome

and so I am thankful

(sometimes)

but there is a lot of crap out there too

which if I let it

erodes my sense of gratefulness and gratitude

the list of evils is also impressive

(no need  to propound, you know them as well as I)

and yet

grace abounds

for the earth is the Lord’s

and all that is in it

no matter what a mess we make of our relationship with the Sacred

(think any religion)

no matter how poorly we behave

no matter how terrifying and tragic life sometimes is

whether we know it or not

and although we are often unaware

God is in this place (we call life, and earth)

and we can not take a step

without tripping over

Sacred Love

and Sacred Presence

and so I am thankful

if for nothing else

than the fact that the earth is thick with God

and every place I stand

(and you stand)

Is Holy Ground