Holy Now - Kathy Mattea

When I was a girl, each week

On Sunday, we would go to church

And pay attention to the priest

And he would read the holy word

And consecrate the holy bread

And everyone would kneel and bow

Today the only difference is

Everything is holy now

Everything, everything

Everything is holy now

When I was in Sunday school

We would learn about the time

Moses split the sea in two

Jesus made the water wine

And I remember feeling sad

That miracles don’t happn still

But now I can’t keep track

'Cause everything’s a miracl

Everything, Everything

Everything’s a miracle

Wine from water is not so small

But an even bigger magic trick

Is that anything is here at all

So the challenging thing becomes

Not to look for miracles

But finding where there isn’t one

When holy water was rare at best

It barely wet my fingertips

But now I have to hold my breath

Like I’m swimming in a sea of it

I used to see a world half there

Heaven’s second rate hand-me-down

But I walk it with a reverent air

'Cause everything is holy now

Everything, everything

Everything is holy now

Read a questioning child’s face

And say it’s not a testament

That’d be very hard to say

See another new morning come

And say it’s not a sacrament

I tell you that it can’t be done

This morning, outside I stood

And saw a little red-winged bird

Shining like a burning bush

Singing like a scripture verse

It made me want to bow my head

I remember when church let out

How things have changed since then

‘Cause everything is holy now

It used to be a world half-there

Heaven’s second rate hand-me-down

But I walk it with a reverent air

'Cause everything is holy now

Everything, everything

Everything is holy now

Everything, everything

Everything is holy now

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah holy now

Everything is holy now

Holy now