Daily Signet

I begin at home; I end at home. I set forth from my home and I return to my home; born into my home I will die into my home. God is my father and in my father—God is my mother and in my mother, I have come home.

William Boast

On This Day…

Louisa May Alcott born in 1832 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: novelist and poet warmly remembered for her Little Women and several sequels. Died 3-6- 1888
Quotes: "Love is a great beautifier." "Housekeeping ain't no joke." "Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory if won."

Madeleine L'Engle born in 1918 in New York City: writer of young adult fiction (A Wrinkle in Time, The Wind At The Door) and for her Crosswicks Journals. Died 9-6-2007
Quotes: "The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." "You have to write the book that wants to be written and if the book will be too difficult for grownups, you write it for children." "We can't take any credit for our talents - it's how we use them that counts.”

C.S.Lewis born in 1898 in Belfast, Ireland: novelist, lay theologian, broadcaster, literary critic and academician at both Oxford and Cambridge remembered for many writings including The Screwtape Letters, his Chronicles of Narnia series, and The Problem of Pain. Died 11-22-1963
Quotes: "I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." "God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."