About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

Say It Ain’t So, Jean

Posted on February 25, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

My father grew up in the 1920's. He was a good athlete and an avid sports fan. He was also a good storyteller. So by the time I was six or seven I had heard about the 1919 "Black Sox Scandal" when eight ballplayers on the Chicago White Sox were found Read more [...]

Brother Weeps Teaches How to Argue

Posted on February 22, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

“Brother Weeps, someone told us that you know a holy way to argue. Is this true?” asked a novice. The brother chuckled. “I suppose it is, yes," he said. "Would you teach us?" "I learned it from listening to my granda and his life-long Read more [...]

Choosing to Sow Seeds of Love

Posted on February 19, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life Line is: Christian spirituality involves the conscious, intentional, immediate, and ongoing choice to incarnate love in the face of our own contingency and certain, imminent death. In other words, in the full awareness of the fragility Read more [...]

Brother Weeps Drives Up a Hill

Posted on February 12, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

A student asked Brother Weeps, “To what can you compare prayer?” Brother Weeps sat quietly with the question, then said, “Once, a long time ago, when I was much younger, I was driving a beat-up old car in a big city late at night. I came to an Read more [...]

The Circle of Praise

Posted on February 6, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

The sacred world lifts up its head To notice— We are double, triple-blessed ~ Joy Harjo When I was growing up in Seattle, we could always tell the out-of-towners. The out-of-towners always carried umbrellas. We kids just had hats and hoods and Read more [...]

Brother Weeps Reminds Us

Posted on February 2, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Brother Weeps often reminded us: “The wise ones know not to wait for tragedy or trauma to wake them up to the incomprehensible surprise of being." "Stitch into the fabric of your day some way to remember yourself to the certainty and imminence of Read more [...]

Lectio Poetica No. 4

Posted on January 30, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Zero Circle Be helpless, dumbfounded, Unable to say yes or no. Then a stretcher will come from grace to gather us up. We are all too dull-eyed to see that beauty. If we say we can, we're lying. If we say No, we don't see it, That No will behead Read more [...]

The Christ-Life as a For-Prophet Endeavor

Posted on January 29, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

In his 1978 landmark book The Prophetic Imagination, renowned biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann, whose specialty is the Hebrew scriptures, writes as succinctly and poignantly about who Jesus was and what he was up to as any Jesus scholar out there. Read more [...]

Of Kobe, Death, and the Two Mysteries

Posted on January 27, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

St. Margaret of Scotland Catholic Grade School perched on the side of a hill like a tam o shanter tilted on the head of a Scotsman on Dravis Avenue in Seattle, Washington. Mrs. Sullivan's classroom. Third grade. That's where I was on November Read more [...]

Brother Po Gets a Name

Posted on January 24, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Brother Weeps said, “I had a dear friend and teacher whose name was Brother Po. When I first met him, I asked, “Brother, your name, is it short for anything?” “Yes,” said Brother Po. “Po is short for poor. When I was given my religious Read more [...]

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