About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

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 [...]

You’re Fired ~ A Life-Line

Posted on November 17, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Once you know the God of love, you fire all the other gods. ~ Mirabai Starr ♣ ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SPIRITUAL DIRECTION ONLINE? Would you benefit from having a trustworthy companion to listen with you to your hopes, struggles, Read more [...]

Where Sacredness Makes a Home — A Life-Line

Posted on November 10, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: To speak of spirituality is to speak of that meeting of eternity with time, of heaven with earth; it is to recover a sense of the holiness of matter, the sacredness of this world of space and time when it is known as the place of Read more [...]

Brother Weeps Sets Us Straight

Posted on November 9, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

One of the themes or convictions that Brother Weeps was most passionate about was that each and every person is the singularly precious beloved of God. He always reminded us: "To say that you are the beloved of God or that I am the beloved of God is a Read more [...]

From the Archives: Self-Exploration

Posted on November 8, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

From the archives: The fear of self-exploration resides in the buried dread that what we will find will be either too much or too little to bear. The difficult and deliberate work of living maturely and soulfully, of becoming who we are intended Read more [...]

The Grace of God ~ A Life-Line

Posted on November 4, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. ~ Frederick Buechner ♣ ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SPIRITUAL DIRECTION Read more [...]

All Souls Day ~ A Remembrance

Posted on November 2, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

I will never forget to remember that I love you. ~ DJM Today we re-member ourselves to those who have died, to those we knew and loved and to all those we never knew but who were known and loved and grieved by a mother or father, brother or sister, Read more [...]

All Saints Day

Posted on November 1, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

It was because the saints were absorbed in God that they were truly capable of seeing and appreciating created things and it was because they loved [God] alone that they alone loved everybody. ~ Thomas Merton Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise ~ Integrity / Part 4

Posted on October 30, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Integrity [ in–teg–ri-tee ] Part 4, The righteous walk in integrity— happy are the children who follow them. ~ Proverbs 20:7 Cease to do evil. Learn to do good. Make justice your home forever. ~ Isaiah 1:16 If the main arbiter for Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise ~ Integrity / Part 3