Daily Signet
O Beloved Spirit,
You are made alive in us
not through our worthiness
or by the appeasement of our good deeds
but through an awakened imagination –
a full, intercoursing flow of our mater and our star.
Awaken us to unceasing prayer.
Rather than prayers fragmented,
chopped into corners of time
subject to the invasion of the urgent.
Instead, may we find unceasing prayer
and secure timeless days
though there be endless waves of too much to consider
and too much to repair.
Awaken us to unceasing prayer.
Rather than fragmented outbursts
of wishes and wants.
Instead, may we find unceasing prayer,
where the valves of our heart flow unconstricted
in a heartbeat of communion,
the hope we would seek to sustain.
Awaken us to unceasing prayer.
Rather than fragmented
and categorized for special occasions,
instead may we hold to the timeless,
constantly move from the light of the inner
though the outer be darkened with the constantly unfinished.
Our days are such that there is no time to take for prayer.
Our only hope – to be in unceasing prayer,
An awakened imagination,
to the unceasing mix of the mater
of what we must do
with the star of what is possible
and in that balance, though all else be askew,
an unceasing conversation with You.
Teach us unceasing prayer, O Beloved Spirit.
Teach us an awakened imagination. Amen.
Benjamin Martin
On This Day…
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