Daily Signet

Keep the star in your home—

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And from our Home here
we look to our Home on high
where we join what we believe
with what has always loved us.
A Home not made with hands,
a place not found by looking.
We link our souls in caring 
and build beyond this span of days.

Mystery of Home and Thanksgiving Service

On This Day…

St. Andrew, disciple and martyr 

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) born in 1835 in Florida, Missouri: novelist, journalist and humorist, writer of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, The Innocents Abroad, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Died 4-21-1910 
Quotes: “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

Gordon Parks born in 1912 in Ft. Scott, Kansas: novelist, photographer, poet, film director, actor and pianist; author of A Choice of Weapons, The Learning Tree, and Half Past Autumn; movies The Learning Tree and Shaft. Died 3-7-06
Quotes: “And now I feel at 85, I really feel that I am just ready to start.” “The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and the unknown, who is unafraid of failure will succeed.”