Daily Signet

We praise God in gasps and words of gratitude at his handiwork. We praise God for physical sustenance and comfort, for a world that can and may supply our physical needs and for the beauty and grandeur we see in God’s creation—a sprig, a spring; a storm, a squall; a desert, a snow; a forest, a fall.

We praise God in our deeds. We joy in the beauty and grandeur we see in our physical creations—a David, a Girl With the Pearl Earring, an Ode to Joy, a Sugar Plum Fairy, a Chartres, a Golden Gate, mashed potatoes with gravy, a chocolate blackout cake. We build our works for the sheer joy of creating beauty and living in its bosom. We praise God for making us creators in his image so we can strive to be human creators.

Ben Leichtling

On This Day…

Lope de Vega born in 1562 in Madrid, Spain: playwright, novelist and poet remembered for The Dog In the Manger, Punishment Without Revenge and The Knight From Olmedo. Died 8-27-1635
Quotes: "Harmony is pure love, for pure love is agreement."
“Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as ‘tis today."
“With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books I live without envy."

Isaac Rosenberg born in 1890 in Bristol, England: World War I poet and painter who was killed in battle 4-1-1918, age 28
Quotes: "l will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on."
"l can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."
“Nothing can justify war."