Daily Signet

If you haven’t seen a baby chick be born, go YouTube it. Once the shell is cracked there’s a lot of unhappy chirping going on and when it emerges it is an ugly mess, a mat of feathers and spindly legs.  Emergence requires that we embrace the feeling of awkward and uncomfortable and yes, even ugly. In the words of Isabelle Davis, “Life is about the challenge, isn’t it?” It is not easy. Resurrection never is. For Christuman we celebrate the resurrection right now, in springtime as have people for thousands of years--the barley planters of Mesopotamia, the Teutonic people paying homage to the goddess, Ostera, where Easter came from. This too is our season of remembering and paying homage to one of   sacred tenets: “from the death of the least of me is born the best of me.” But we are we are called to do more than just remember. The Christ in us requires us to participate, to live in a daily litany of breaking out of the shells holding the least of us so the Christ in us can emerge. The chicken lays an egg every day so there is an egg a day, 365 days a year that we must open from the inside. Crack it open, waddle around, rejoice in the best of you.                                               

Jamie Ziegler

On This Day…

St. Longinus: Roman centurion present at the crucifixion who recognized Jesus as the Son of Man – he was later martyred for this