Daily Signet

The Kingdom of Heaven is within me.

A dialogue of fire and green pastures
where what I do confronts that I am.  
What seemed afar off
now calls me out of my routine.  
This fearful event—
a death, a disease, a challenge, a burning bush—
addresses me with a voice of fire. 
I do not recognize the voice but I recognize it to be holy—
something wholly other than and yet wholly here. 
Out of what I know into an expression of what I cannot know.  
I stand on holy ground, 
my grave and my garden. 
And out of this ground I experience the I Am.   

Benjamin Martin

On This Day…

Shinto Day of Mourning for the massacre of peaceful protestors in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China (1989)