Daily Signet

As Meister Eckhart prayed, so do I pray: "I pray God to rid me of God." The mystery of God is in the paradox of this prayer. I cannot rid myself of God without calling upon the power of God, and so to be totally rid of—without God—I must be totally within Him. Only within Him am I no longer buffeted by the winds about God, but I am centered rather, in the very eye of God and therefore, free of any God I might conjure or ignore. 

Oh God, rid me of the God I believe in—He is not big enough—and fill me with the God I belove in—He is the well of eternal waters—above, beyond and within all I know. Amen.  

Benjamin Martin

On This Day…

The Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows: commemoration of the seven most sorrowful moments in Blessed Virgin Mary’s life, the last having been her Son’s crucifixion

Agatha Christie, Dame of the British Empire born 1890 in Torquay, Cornwall, England: prolific mystery writer, died 1976
Works: novels and stories of detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple,
Quotes: “One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.” “But surely for everything you have to love, you have to pay some price.” “The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.”