Daily Signet

More personal than all the things we desire,
more unique than the opinions we have acquired,
more vital than the talents we can display,
the epiphany of you in us.

As if you are the breath that sounds out and through the song we sing,
as if you are the intoxicant that sets us trilling with joy,
as if you are the longing for life beyond the death we must conceive,
the epiphany of you in us.

Star above,
whose light illuminates the manger of our work, our deeds, our desires
shine over us in a shout of light and call out in us the recognition,
there is a child of god given birth in here,
the epiphany of you in us.

In Your Image.  Amen                                                

Benjamin Martin 

On This Day…

Christian Watch Night: Evening service ending after midnight where prayers of atonement are said, and blessings on the New Year

Shinto Oharai/Grand Purification: festival exorcising evil from the world