About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

Sister Mahala and the Storefront Sign

Posted on June 8, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Sister Mahala once told this story to a group of grade school students: Two boys were walking down Main Street in Anywhere, USA. When they came to the General Store, the owner stood in the doorway leaning against the doorjamb. To the store owner's Read more [...]

Brother Weeps on the Truth of the Matter

Posted on May 17, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Receiving and Actualizing the Quiet Eminence of Your Being

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

My Favorite Dr. Seuss story is "Too Many Daves." It's found in perhaps my favorite Dr. Seuss book The Sneetches and Other Stories. I remember when my mom used to read this story aloud to us about a mother and her many sons. Only two hundred and eight Read more [...]

How Brother Weeps Says Goodbye

Posted on May 10, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Learning to Deal with Death

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Friday of the Third Week of Easter Today's Life-Line is: Easter? We focus more on dying than on death. How we deal with dying is more important to us than how we conquer death. [...] Learning to deal with dying, however, does not yet mean we Read more [...]

Sister Mahala on Defending the Faith, Blackberry Bushes, and Other Murmurations

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

A rather zealous young man asked Sister Mahala, “What is the best way to defend the faith?” “To defend the faith or to defend yourself?” said Sister Mahala. The young man blushed, then replied, “To defend the faith.” Sister Mahala said, Read more [...]

Brother Weeps on the Withness of God

Posted on April 24, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Brother Weeps taught that the gospel of Jesus is not so much that God comes to save us, but that God saves us by coming to us and by being with us as one of us. ~ Dan Miller. All Rights Reserved. © 2019. COMMENTARY: For those of us who come Read more [...]

Prayer as Practicing Descent

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

A time of global and cultural descent calls for a spirituality of humility, substance, depth, and wisdom if as a species we hope not merely to survive but to learn something fundamentally profound and life-changing at the level of soul. Read more [...]

Lectio Poetica No. 7 ~ Earth Day Poem

Posted on April 22, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. ~ Wendell Berry There are three aspects of nature which command humankind's attention: power, loveliness, grandeur. Power we exploit, loveliness we enjoy, grandeur Read more [...]

On Prayer: The Lost Art of Kneeling

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Here is another reflection from 2010 on prayer called "A Kneeler in Training." To read it, CLICK HERE. Read more [...]

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