Daily Signet

Much as there is a unique pattern on the thumbprint of each individual, there is a thumbprint on the soul—a fiery signet. And this signet is “set like a seal over our hearts” and it is impressioned with a blazing flame of love. As it says in Song of Solomon, “For love is as strong as death, passion is as unrelenting as Sheol. Its flames burst forth, it is a blazing flame.” So the seal on our soul is as strong as death and as powerful as a blazing flame—stronger than any cultural, time-bound limitation, stronger than any deadness that seems to have locked us, to have blocked us in. The fiery signet, ourorigo, our unique alloy of ancestry, talent and mastery is sealed in a blazing flame of love so that out of the death of the least of us, we might take the Christ born within us, break forth and “Go in Love.” The power that seals our soul is greater than the power that blocks us, defines us, confines us; the seal of the Beloved Spirit is greater than the seal of the Status Quo.

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