Daily Signet
A scientist might say that you can predict the light, when it will emerge in the morning and when it will tuck itself into the night. But for me, it is always unpredictable—never the same. A scientist might say, you can predict where it will be in the sky depending on the time of year. But for me, while it is reminiscent of where it was in the sky this time last year, it is definitely different this year. It is a wonder to awaken to the truth that my world is lighted by a star and to couple that with the scientific truth that “Every atom in my body was once in a star.” A star’s light reaching in through my vistas and calling out the atomic nature of my being is marvelous—amazing….
Stars are sacked like jacks in us—waiting for their chance to be. We are the folly of the Divine who has stashed gem-like stars in this bag of our flesh and said, “Bear Fruit. Now, play.” We are not about this sack but about stars. Can we, seeded with stars, give birth to light? And what are these divine elements of stars hiding out in this animal trough of ours? They are the star of genius, the star of imagination, the star of creative response, the star of humor, the star of times past and times future. These seeds of stars are what transform us from merely animal into animal animated with divine breath, with the inspiration of the Holy Breath. We are children of the Holy Spirit. Spill open the sack and let the stars display!
Benjamin Martin
On This Day…
Mother Seton: founder of the American Daughters of Charity, and first American saint
JRR Tolkien born in 1892 in South Africa: writer, poet, philologist. Works: The Hobbit, Trilogy of the Rings. Died, 1973. Quotes: “Not all who wander are lost.” “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
