Daily Signet

When I think of my favorite songs that I listen to when I am in “a funk,” I realize how many of them are songs about joy and songs about love—and how many of them use both words in their titles….Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote, “Music…will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain joy alive in you.” As I have found sustenance, life-changing and life-giving moments through music, especially through my playlist of favorites, may you each come to find your “playlist of favorites”—whether it is in music, or in reading, or in meditating, cooking, writing, cleaning or praying. Unite joy with your love. May it lead you to the best of you where you become one with all that is human and with all that is divine.  

Earl Behnke