About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

What to Do with Wonder

Posted on January 21, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Here is a Life-Line worth taking hold of: The beginning of faith is not a feeling for the mystery of living or a sense of awe, wonder or fear. The root of religion is the question what to do with the feeling for the mystery of living, what to do with Read more [...]

Martin Luther King and Our Single Garment of Destiny

Posted on January 20, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. I call the main character in Jesus' story below, Bigger Barnes. Bigger Barnes lives with the all too common assumption that bigger is better. And so he spends his days Read more [...]

Consecrating the Common Deed

Posted on January 18, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

One of the great realizations I gleaned from my years studying the life and works of Rabbi Abraham Heschel is the power, imperative, and sanctity of the common deed, the seemingly simple gesture, word, or act so typically overlooked and often left Read more [...]

Brother Weeps Speaks on Silence

Posted on January 14, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

"Brother Weeps, what happens when you pray and all you hear back is silence?" asked a young woman, implying perhaps that prayer doesn't work or that God isn't there or that she must be doing something wrong. "Well, then it's time you learn the Read more [...]

A Poem for Sunday

Posted on January 12, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Golden Hill by Bridgette Guerzon Mills Wringing Out My Clothes Such love doesthe sky now pourthat whenever I stand in a field, I have to wring out the lightwhen I gethome. ~ Saint Francis of Assisi from Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Read more [...]

Enlarge Our Hearts

Posted on January 11, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

A Life-Line to Take Hold of: We face the situation that there is nothing we can do for people except to love them. . . . We continue in our fourteenth year of feeding our brother and clothing him and sheltering him and the more we do it the Read more [...]

When Will We Ever Learn?

Posted on January 9, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

They shall beat their swords into plowsharesand their spears into pruning hooks;One nation shall not raise the sword against another,nor shall they train for war again. ~ Is. 2:4b; Micah 4:3 In this world of continuous wars and rumors of war, Read more [...]

Brother Weeps Gives a Word

Posted on January 8, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

“Brother Weeps, give us a word your teacher gave you,” asked the novice. “Oh. I don’t know,” said Brother Weeps.“But you must remember some teaching of his,” said the young inquirer.“I don’t know,” said Brother Weeps.“Well, Read more [...]

On the Porch of Mystery

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

A Life-Line for the week after the Feast of Epiphany (An Excerpt) Having had the privilege, as a spiritual director, of catching and holding the stories of so many extraordinarily ordinary and ordinarily extraordinary people, Read more [...]

The Feast of Epiphany

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

“Once upon a time there were some very wise men who were all sitting in their own countries minding their own business when a bright star lodged in the right eye of each of them. It was so bright that none of them could tell whether it was burning Read more [...]

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