Daily Signet

Home is the place of comfort for the animal of you and the child of you. Home is also where sacrifices have been shared, shared loss and gain, pleasure and pain, to create, sustain and glorify the building of it. Home is also the loam where, when you go there, your animal and child are restored. Your spirit is revived. You are given hope and strength again to become the highest you can be in God’s world.

Ben Leichtling

On This Day…

St. Martin de Porres: 17C son of a freed black slave mother from Panama and a Spanish hildago father. Apprenticed to a barber surgeon before entering a Peruvian Dominican convent as a menial lay person in 1595. Became known for his devotion, spiritual guidance and healing skills.

Oodgeroo Noonuccal born in 1920 on North Stradbroke Island, Melbourne, Australia: political activist, educator, poet. First aboriginal poet to be published in such collections as The Dawn Is At Hand, Father Sky and Mother Earth, and Dreamtime. Died 9-l6-93. Quotes: From her poem We Are Going:
The scrubs are gone, the hunting and the laughter.
The eagle is gone, the emu and the kangaroo are gone from this place.
The bora ring is gone.
The corroboree is gone.
 And we are going.