Daily Signet

We look for direct access to the imagination—the star in us—the mercurial element of transformation and creation. Can we take on more than we want to be, to be what we need to be, to be what we are asked to be? We reach in for that star and look to transform, that the inner can shine outer and that what is outer is true to the inner. That in the masking and unmasking, we will learn grace and fidelity and sophia. It is more than enough to be so loved, so blessing drenched.  

Might our jobs, our work, our calling be our crucible, and what we pour into it, our mater? And out of this alchemy, a new human who is the human we have always been but could not be because we were always in the way?  

O Holy Spirit, in our giving up and giving in, may our submission lead to the star in us—the imaginatio of our mater. Amen.

Benjamin Martin

On This Day…

Annunciation, work by unknown artist, c. 1420, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

Catholic Christian Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Mary was visited by the Archangel Gabriel who told her of the coming of the Christ Child