Daily Signet

The mystery of God is in the God beyond the God—the wholly-other-than-God—beyond what my senses can trap in their limited bandwidth of light and vibration and color, beyond what my eyes can invert and reflect back to my brain and receive via any sense—God beyond all sense; beyond all senses. To be sure, in a way I can experience God, but only the God I can digest, only the God I can tear up with teeth and swallow in small bites and push down narrow passages—yet, this is only a limited taste of the unlimited. No matter how intense is the God I experience, there is more God beyond that. Whatever widening circle I travel, His circle is beyond that. Whatever outreaches of whatever frontiers exist within my soul, His soul extends beyond that. Like the horizon, He appears more accessible at first glance than when He is actually approached. He is ever-beyond and beyond even that.                        

Benjamin Martin

On This Day…

St. Hildegarde of Bingen: 11-12C abbess and mystic who illustrated many of her visions, philosopher, composer (780 works.) Never canonized

William Carlos Williams born 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey: physician, writer, poet, died 1963
Works: Spring and All, Asphodel, That Greeny Flower

Ken Kesey born 1935 in La Junta, Colorado: founder of The Merry Prankster movement, beat poet and writer, died 2001
Works: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Sometimes A Great Notion
Quotes: “Man, when you lose your laugh, you lose your footing.” “You can’t really be strong until you see the funny side of things.” “People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.”