About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

A Christmas Blessing

Posted on December 25, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

GOODPEOPLE ~ May this season of new birth bring you life abundant May this season of darkness be a tunnel to light May this season of hope be a worthy keeper of your trust May this season of patient waiting be safe harbor for your yearning May Read more [...]

T’was the Night Before Christmas 2020

Posted on December 24, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the land people were dying, other people were lending a hand. A heart. The stockings were all hung from (some of) the chimney(s) with care While 500,000 U.S. homeless slept under bridges, many sockless Read more [...]

Meetings and Greetings: The Beauty and Joy of Sacred Encounters

Posted on December 23, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Many years ago, on a Friday afternoon, when my now young adult children were in grade school, I was waiting for them in my car for when school let out. I was parallel parked along the street immediately outside the cyclone fenced property of the school. Read more [...]

Three on the INCARNATION (for Emphasis)

Posted on December 22, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

EMMANUEL Other humans can die a grisly death, as Jesus did. They cannot be born, as he was, as God incarnate. ~ Gary Wills Click HERE for a reflection from December 25, 2017 on the mystery of the Incarnation. Click HERE for a reflection from December Read more [...]

Lectio Poetica No. 9

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Miracles ~Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along Read more [...]

The Imperative of Reverence in Sacrilegious Times

Posted on December 13, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

To revere another is to behold their indigenous sacredness and to stand in awe before the One in whom they live and move and have their being. ~ Dan Miller Human being is either coming into meaning or betraying it.~ Abraham Heschel Yesterday, Read more [...]

Brother Weeps Reminds Us

Posted on December 12, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Brother Weeps was forever reminding us of this simple profundity: "It is because we are loved that we live. And because we live, we live to love." GOODPEOPLE, I've never asked this before, but if you feel so inclined or even disinclined or maybe Read more [...]

Remembering Merton

Posted on December 10, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Fifty-two years ago today, American Trappist monk Thomas Merton died by electrocution in Bangkok, Thailand (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968). Merton arguably was the most impactful Christian spiritual writer of the 20th century, if not in the world, Read more [...]

All Creation is Waiting

Posted on December 3, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

ADVENT is a Time of Waiting and all creation, not merely humans, wait and yearn for the day when shalom and shalem embrace and together become the stillness within the song and the song within the stillness that bring healing and jubilation at last to Read more [...]

On Church Reform

Posted on November 28, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Today I Joined We Are Church Ireland (WAC Ireland). It is affiliated to WAC International. Here is how the organization is described on its webpage: We Are Church Ireland (WAC Ireland) is a group of concerned Irish Catholics committed to the renewal Read more [...]

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