About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

Reaching Out, Pulled from Within — A Lament

Posted on December 5, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

~ After Listening to an interview with Nick Cave and while reading his book Faith, Hope, and Carnage. Does it get better? Does it get better? Does it get better? Does it get better? Does it get better? Does it get better? ⊕ Does it ever Read more [...]

The Blessed Tension—When Suffering and Beauty Kiss

Posted on November 15, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMxd_XwsKsw Beauty will save the world. ~ Dostoevsky Alexander Solzhenitsyn also wrestled with this line in his 1970 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, and we're lucky to be privy to his chain of thought here: "One Read more [...]

The Tragedy of Us and Them — A Lamentation

Posted on November 7, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

Some are guilty, all are responsible. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel While men called adults keep playing the same old demented games where no one ever wins both sides always lose each side justifying violence so that violence and anguish and death and trauma Read more [...]

Today’s Good Medicine

Posted on October 10, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

~ BIG BLESSINGS, GOODPEOPLE

St. Francis — Receiver & Giver of Joy

Posted on October 4, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

"Joy is the most undeniable sign of the presence of God." ~ Leon Bloy Beginning in the early 1980's, I began making regular jaunts to Weston, Vermont to spend time with the Benedictine Brothers at Weston Priory nestled at the foot of the Green Mountains. Read more [...]

Times They Are A-Changin’ OR How Kids Get to School These Days

Posted on August 23, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

This afternoon I heard a news report on the radio that said “India became the fourth country to land on the moon,” which is mind-blowing to think how in the world they got all those people there. But the report got me thinking about travel. Not Read more [...]

Sunday Take Five ~ A Music Break for Body & Soul

Posted on June 25, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

Dearly Beloved ~ Yoko Shimomura The RU Philharmonic Orchestra Nicholas Canellakis, Cello Jon Kimura Parker, Piano https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=vKUd-j8MnIk Dvorak (arr. Fischer) - "Goin' Home" for Cello and Piano Nicholas Read more [...]

The World Will Be Saved By ——

Posted on June 4, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

There is an all-too-familiar adage—"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"—that has allowed many to assume beauty is utterly subjective. In fact, beauty is no more subjective than goodness or truth which together allude to the triadic nature of God. Read more [...]

When Religion Goes off the Rails ~ A Life-Line

Posted on June 3, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Religion becomes sinful when it begins to advocate the segregation of God, to forget that the true sanctuary has no walls. Religion has always suffered from the tendency to become an end in itself, to seclude the holy, to become Read more [...]

Let’s Hear It for All the Moms Out There

Posted on May 14, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.” . . . Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates. ~ Proverbs Read more [...]

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