About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1931 – 2021) R.I.P.

Posted on December 26, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Some self-identifying Christians make a mockery of the word Christian and what it is meant to signify. Then you have someone like Archbishop Desmond Tutu and you catch a glimpse of the true Christ-life, one marked by humanity not perfection, humility Read more [...]

The Skin-to-Skin of Divine Love

Posted on December 25, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today we celebrate the incarnation of love in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. In verse 1 of the prologue to his Gospel, the Evangelist John famously writes: In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The Greek Read more [...]

The Posts of Christmas Past

Posted on December 23, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2012/12/24/4361/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2018/12/24/life-line-147/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2017/12/25/the-unbecoming-of-god-the-incarnation-of-love/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2014/12/22/be-here-now/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2019/12/25/merry-christmas/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2012/12/25/christmas-prayer/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2020/12/25/a-christmas-blessing/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2010/12/24/christmas-eve-two-poems/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2016/12/24/healing-hope-peace-justice-joy/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2016/12/21/advent-2016-spiritual-surrogacy/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2016/12/30/btw-christians-christmas-implicates-us/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2017/12/24/if-you-want-a-poem-for-christmas-eve/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2017/12/25/the-unbecoming-of-god-the-incarnation-of-love/ Read more [...]

Into This World—ADVENT PRAYER 2021

Posted on December 21, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Into this world frazzled by haste bring us STILLNESS. We will be still in you. Into this world disgraced by greed bring us GRACE. We will move gracefully too. Into this world plagued with indifference bring us COMPASSION. We will embody compassion Read more [...]

Grace is a Happening that Evokes Our Two Vocations

Posted on December 19, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Before we knew it as a last-ditch effort to throw a football sixty yards with no time left on the clock into a mosh pit in the end zone, those of us who grew up Catholic knew the Hail Mary as a prayer, the words of which slid off the tongue as spontaneously Read more [...]

Poem for Friday of Third Week in Advent

Posted on December 17, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

In a Dark Time In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in the echoing wood-- A lord of nature weeping to a tree, I live between the heron and the wren, Beasts of the hill and serpents of Read more [...]

In the Bleak Midwinter, a Day to Re-Joy

Posted on December 12, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

. . . everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. ~ Isaiah 35:10b Today, the Third Sunday of Advent, is known as GAUDETE SUNDAY or Rejoice Sunday. Guadete in Latin means Read more [...]

Musica Memento 10 ~ Yearning for Our Home

Posted on December 9, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Yearning is perhaps best typed in italics because its modus operandi involves leaning into life. All genuine earthly yearnings are expressions of the one deep longing for the One Intimacy from which we come and in which we experience peace, taste Read more [...]

Musica Memento 9 ~ Magnificat: VI Esurientes

Posted on December 1, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

There are not many who can get me in the mood and spirit of Advent any better than John Rutter, English composer and conductor. The beauty of his Magnificat: VI Esurientes with soloist Patricia Forbes matches the beauty of this liturgical season—my Read more [...]

The Healing Power of Nature

Posted on November 28, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

From 1986 - 1988 I had the good fortune to be trained as a spiritual director or guide at the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation. I had four wonderful and wise teachers, all of whom were writers as well: psychiatrist and contemplative Read more [...]

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