Holy As A Day Is Spent-Carrie Newcomer

[ti:Holy As A Day Is Spent] [ar:Carrie Newcomer] [al:Kindred Spirits: A Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Holy As A Day Is Spent - Carrie Newcomer [00:01.00]Holy is the dish and drain [00:04.35] [00:05.18]The soap and sink and the cup and plate [00:08.90]And the warm wool socks and the cold white tile [00:12.90] [00:14.06]Shower heads and good dry towels [00:17.75]And frying eggs sound like psalms [00:22.14]With bits of salt measured in my palm [00:25.54] [00:26.33]It's all a part of a sacrament [00:30.49] [00:31.13]As holy as a day is spent [00:35.70] [00:38.75]Holy is the busy street [00:43.11]And cars that boom with passion's beat [00:46.53]And the check out girl counting change [00:51.71]And the hands that shook my hands today [00:55.53]And hymns of geese fly overhead [00:58.91] [01:00.49]And spread their wings like their parents did [01:04.11]Blessed be the dog that runs in her sleep [01:08.94]To chase some wild and elusive thing [01:13.59] [01:17.32]Holy is the familiar room [01:21.13]And quiet moments in the afternoon [01:23.96] [01:24.95]And folding sheets like folding hands [01:29.96]To pray as only laundry can [01:33.74]I'm letting go of all my fear [01:37.69] [01:38.46]Like autumn leaves made of earth and air [01:41.65] [01:42.39]For the summer came and the summer went [01:46.69] [01:47.23]As holy as a day is spent [01:52.00] [01:55.55]Holy is the place I stand [01:59.10] [01:59.79]To give whatever small good I can [02:03.01] [02:03.64]And the empty page and the open book [02:07.68] [02:08.49]Redemption everywhere I look [02:12.12]Unknowingly we slow our pace [02:16.78]In the shade of unexpected grace [02:20.74]And with grateful smiles and sad lament [02:25.82]As holy as a day is spent [02:29.84]And morning light sings providence [02:34.60] [02:35.70]As holy as a day is spent