Be Open to the Moments

It was a very special day.  My two grandsons were to be baptized.  The service opened with the hymn Love Divine, All Loves Excelling.  We were sitting so close to the choir and church organ you could feel the music.  As we sang the last word “praise”, a tiny voice in the middle of our pew kept singing.  It resounded throughout the church, and instantly I was filled with the joy of knowing my oldest grandson had been touched by the moment.  In his book The Exquisite Risk, Nepo describes tumbling into moments that become “an all-encompassing atmosphere of Spirit”, almost missed.  Be open to the sacredness of life today.