About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

Speaking of Wonder & Awe

Posted on June 1, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

A moment of awe is a moment of self-consecration. They who sense the wonder share in the wonder. They who keep holy the things that are holy shall themselves become holy. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel PHOTO: Kathy Conzelman. Used with permission. Read more [...]

THE DREAM TEAM: My Starting Five ~ 2. Wonder

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Suppose your spiritual life was a ball team. Who would be your starting five? I think us here to wonder, myself. . . The more I wonder. . . the more I love. ~ Shug in The Color Purple, Alice Walker There are only two ways to live . . . one is Read more [...]

‘Tis a Fearful Thing to Love

Posted on May 30, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

‘Tis a fearful thing to love what death can touch. A fearful thing to love, to hope, to dream, to be ― to be, and oh, to lose. A thing for fools, this, and a holy thing, a holy thing to love. For your life has lived in me, your laugh Read more [...]

THE DREAM TEAM: My Starting Five ~ 1. Love

Posted on May 29, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Suppose your spiritual life was a basketball team. Who would be your starting five? Let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. ~ 1 John 3:18 I really only love God as much as I love the person I love least. ~ Dorothy Day Sports enthusiasts Read more [...]

What’s Going On?

Posted on May 28, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

There is something deeply disturbing when the songs from our youth—like Marvin Gaye's WHAT'S GOING ON—that articulate or allude to the exasperation, agony, unnecessary suffering, and righteous anger of the time in response to the Vietnam War, the Read more [...]

“A voice is heard in Ramah*, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.” ~ Jeremiah 31:15

Posted on May 24, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

The 11 mass deadly school shootings that happened in the U.S. since Columbine * Virginia Tech – April 16, 2007 – 32 victims Sandy Hook Elementary School – Dec. 14, 2012 – 26 victims Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School – Feb. 14, 2018 Read more [...]

Musica Memento 11 ~ After Bob Dylan (and Jesus)

Posted on May 21, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

In light of the fact that it is Robert Zimmerman's 81st birthday in a few days (May 24), I thought I'd post one of my favorite covers of one of my favorite Dylan songs—"Girl from the North Country". Oscar Wilde recycled a proverb dating back to the Read more [...]

The Most Essential is Never Expressed ~ A Life-Line

Posted on May 21, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: What characterizes humans is not only our ability to develop words and symbols, but also our being compelled to draw a distinction between the utterable and the unutterable, to be stunned by that which is but cannot be put Read more [...]

The Deepest Bow to God is Awe

Posted on May 20, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Religion begins with the sense of the ineffable, with the awareness of a reality that discredits our wisdom, that shatters our concepts. It is the ineffable with which we must begin. ~ Abraham Heschel One reason I was drawn to Rabbi Abraham Heschel's Read more [...]

What We Breathe Out into the World Makes All the Difference

Posted on May 16, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

One drop continually dripped wears away even the strongest stone. Little strokes fell great oaks. No one comes out of their mother's womb hateful, racist, or evil. More and more I've come to believe that to be a Christ-one—or minimally, a person Read more [...]

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