On Prayer as Returning Home
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I'm still hanging out in the archives. Here's a reflection from 2010 about prayer called "Remembering Where We Come From." To read it, CLICK HERE.
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Author Archives: Daniel J. Miller
Lectio Poetica No. 6
Wendell Berry's poem "The Peace of Wild Things" seems timely. For those of you who would like to use Berry's poem for prayerful reflection, I invite you first to read the description of Lectio Poetica HERE.
The Peace of Wild Things
When despair Read more [...]
The Anointing
This was originally posted two years ago. For some reason it tugged on my sleeve today, got my attention, and asked if maybe it could get yours as well. I said okay.
MANY YEARS AGO, when I was in my mid-twenties, I drove once a week from Princeton, Read more [...]
Sister Mahala Happens Upon Brother Polycarp
Sister Mahala was on a day hike by herself when she saw a young monk named Brother Polycarp at a distance coming her way. Known for his tempestuous spirit and propensity to complain, the other monks teased him from time to time by calling him Brother Read more [...]
Litmus Test: Enlivening and Loving
I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly, ~ John 10:10
Religion fails, at the personal, ecclesial, social, and cosmic level, whenever it fails to cultivate, encourage, and engender among its practitioners life and love. Certainly from Read more [...]
Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
It is at Easter that Jesus is most human, and like all humans, he fails and is failed. His is not an all-powerful God, it is an all-vulnerable God.
~ Michael Leunig
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Easter 2020 – Two by Buechner
Today's Life-Lines are:
“Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of Read more [...]
Resurrection: An Embodied Truth
“(Christians) would have to sing better songs for me to believe in their Savior: his disciples would have to look more redeemed.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
“Touché! Point well taken.” ~ Dan Miller
Ever since a few women friends of Jesus went to Read more [...]
Triduum Triptych – Panel 3
The short reflections for each of the three days of Triduum were published as one piece in Spirituality Mar/Apr 2012; No. 101 under the title “The Paschal Mystery.”
Easter
Easter comes.
Into all of creation groaning for God’s salvation, Easter Read more [...]
Sister Mahala on One Difference Between Children and Adults
Holy Saturday
Sister Mahala said,
“Children are afraid of the dark because they fear someone's there.
Adults are afraid of the dark because they fear no one's there.”
~ Dan Miller. All Rights Reserved. © 2020
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