Giving thanks in the Heere and Now , that is how one stands on holy ground barefoot , cares of the world cast off our beautiful gospel bearing feet. Our feet stand naked in the presence of the Self-existent One, facing tombstones, the lived lives of others who have gone before us on the path of Life and Deah.
The story , the legacy of life is engraved in the headstone.
We may even be standing on a murder ground or a suicide ground or a painful ground or an uncommon ground or a difficult ground, but ANY ground is considered holy because giving thanks on the ground redeems the place, the circumstance, the Heere, gives the circumstance to God, and invites God to be in Heere and now with you, Creator and Created , and HE is the one who Redeems it because he is the Redeemer of your broken life. Giving thanks acknowledges him in the Reality of NOW and HEERE , a place where God can always be found, a place where joy will always be following behind words of thanks , and where grace abounds because Emmanuel, Jesus' name, means "God WITH us".... it dosent mean "God was with us" .....
The Redeemer is Reality.
And i find Reality the moment "thank you" is whispered into the night air full of tears..... i find Reality in flood sculpted rock canyons painted red and ochre echoing , " THANK YOU!" and i find Reality at their critical eyes and clenched fists and judgmental words and Reality comes with a small prayer of silence " thank you".....
Gratitude turns what you have Heere and NOW , not tomorrow , into enough because God himself, the All Sufficient One, is Heere and Now and enough for NOW and for ever.
Thank you
