Daily Signet

Our signing of the star, not the cross, invokes the sign of the Christed Human, not the crucified God. We are not about laying our sins and burdens at the cross but of the death of the least of us that the best of us might blaze through: As Rumi says: “Suddenly in my bosom, A sun shone clear and bright; All the suns of heaven, Vanished in that star’s light." Rumi embodied the star. In every service, we say, “The star is the world's chance to be.” The Christed human, a fully anointed life is an amazing “chance to be”—the fully Spirit-enthused life that encompasses all regions of life, the inner and the outer, the body and the birth family, the emotional, the intellectual, the generative, the relationships both within and without.

On This Day…

Thomas Merton born 1915 in France: Catholic writer, mystic and Trappist monk. Works: Seven Storey Mountain, A Man in the Divided Sea, The Contemplative Life, and many more. Died, 1968. 
Quotes: “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.” “Art enables us to find ourselves and to lose ourselves at the same time.” “The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.”