Daily Signet

There would be no resurrection miracle if Christ’s tomb had been left sealed or if it had been opened up by the guards. The egg at Easter is like Christ’s tomb. An egg broken from the outside brings certain death to what is inside. An egg left unbroken is the sign of death from the inside. Only an egg broken from the inside brings new life. “A pipping at this shell of mine,” we chant in our Creativity service. These seven words are music to me. For Christuman, this is our life chant. We are called to break open the shells we are born in and break open the seals of the tomb that hold us. We are the only ones who can take action when we don’t fit comfortably in our shells any more, when we have gotten too big to be comfortable in the place in which we were once so comfortable, when we have been still too long and need to move. We can’t look to Christ to do this for us. We have to be the Christ.                                     

Jamie Ziegler

On This Day…

Easter Sunday: Christian remembrance of the resurrection of Jesus

Christian remembrance of the day of death for Dietrich Bonhoeffer: 20th C Lutheran pastor who, as a result of his work with the Resistance, and his public speaking after he was forbidden to do so by the Nazi party, was imprisoned, and at the end of the war, executed.
Quote: “Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.”