Daily Signet

Our search for You is certain death 
unless we seek to die. 
Answers stand in stagnant pools 
while unknowing fuels a living fire.

Burn up the words we worship,
yet infuse us with their heat.
Free us from our finding
that unfastened,
we may be naked in our seeking.

Kindle our death,
that we may die to self,
that life might rise from the ashes.      

Benjamin Martin

On This Day…

St. Peter Claver: 17C Spanish Jesuit priest and missionary sent to Colombia, South America to minister to the African slaves, feeding them and treating their wounds before they were sold on. He is said to have baptized more than 300,000 and regularly traveled inland to visit his converts working on the plantations

Richard Wright born 1908 in Roxie, Mississippi”: writer, died 1960

Works: Native Son, Black Boy, Uncle Tom’s Children

Quotes: “Don’t leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.” “The artist must bow to the monster of his own creation.” “The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again, and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.”