Daily Signet

…physical purchase is more easily found than spiritual purchase. People stumble, drag their feet, leap clumsily from one possibility to the next, never knowing to remove their sandals on sacred ground. It makes for a terrible un-groundedness, an existence without the possibility of light…  

Eastern Orthodox congregations stand for services. They don’t sit in the presence of God.
Each prayer begins with the command to 
“Attend” Which means: “Be present; Stand with purchase.”

A part of spiritual purchase is in returning to your heart. St Augustine said, “Monastic prayer begins with a ‘return to the heart’—finding one’s deepest center, awakening the profound depth of our being in the presence of God who is the source of our being and our life.”  And presence requires purchase.                                                                                                       

Donna Piper Leichtling