Daily Signet

On the Christuman Way, we bear light and we become the creative outpouring of that Light.
We embody “Creative acts that turn grief to art, turn humiliation to resilience, the everyday care for a child to joy, pain to empathy, take anger and turn it into right action, take poverty and turn it into grace.” It is not so much that enlightenment flows into and fills us; it is that enlightenment flows out from us in creation – here, now, in this time and place, in this sacred moment.It is not so much that pure vision flows into us so we may see the secret workings of the great machine of God’s cosmos; it is that…creative energy and works flow out of us as we express God’s vision for us – here, now, in this time and place, in this sacred moment.           

Ben Leichtling

On This Day…

Derek Walcott born 1930 on St. Lucia: poet, playwright. Works: Dream in Monkey Mountain, White Egrets, Omeros. 
Quotes: “Break a vase and the love that reassembles the fragment is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.” “The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of imagination; it is the property of the language itself.” “If you know what you are going to write when you’re writing a poem, it’s going to be average.”