Daily Signet

O Holy Spirit,

I am positioned between walls
that will not budge.

I am at the base of mountains
that will not move.

I am stuck beneath clouds
seamed with threatening rain.

And yet, despite those conditions, 
I know a joy— 
a joy without conditions—
a joy that sustains me
even when the days are sour
and my passage blocked.  

This unconditional joy rides
upon the intake of my breath
and circulates a rejuvenating life.  

You are That—
that Breath, 
that Joy, 
that Life. 

In Your Image. Amen.                                                

Benjamin Martin

On This Day…

Adrienne Rich born 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland, died 2012: poet
Works: Diving Into the Wreck, The Dream of a Common Language, On Lies, Secrets and Silence
Quotes: “Lying is done with words and also with silence.” “When a woman tells the truth, she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.” “Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false naming of real events.”