Sacred

Jesus doesn’t divide the world up into the common and the sacred; he gives us eyes to see the sacred in the common.”

― Rob Bell, What We Talk About When We Talk About God: A Special Edition

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Sacred is sometimes easy to see

mountains soaring

eagles coasting on the wind

fawns nestled in the grass

the smiles of grandchildren

it is not so easy (for me)

to find Sacred in the homeless man

crouched on the sidewalk in the shadow wealth

or in the angry rants on Facebook

it is not so easy to Sacred Presence

in that person who believes that brutality wins the day

or that accumulation of wealth

justifies the neglect of the vulnerable

it is not so easy, some mornings

to see Sacred in the mirror

but it is there

woven in and through

everything

everyone

if I only have eyes

to see