About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

Easter 2023 in Poetry & Song

Posted on April 8, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

Friends of The Sacred Braid and readers of THE ALMOND TREE, the author of the Song of Songs writes: "See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come." And the song of spring we sing is Read more [...]

Second Friday of Lent — Gideon’s Bible, My Unsung Hero, and the Practice of Hope as an Act of Resistance

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

One deed of an individual may decide the fate of the world. ~ Abraham Heschel I confess to a wee bit of eye-rolling in response to the GBS otherwise known as The Gideon's Bible Syndrome. Most of you who have spent time pilfering hotel bathrooms Read more [...]

Second Wednesday of Lent — Setting the Alarm

Posted on March 8, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

Fasting and abstinence are ancient practices integral to a multitude of religions. Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and Jainism all practice some form of fasting and abstinence. Athletes and actors are commonly fasting or abstaining. Read more [...]

Second Monday of Lent — What Gets in the Way?

Posted on March 5, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

Typically, we associate Lent and its practices with subtraction (SEE this coming Friday's post): doing less of something, perhaps eating only one meal on a particular day (fasting) or giving up altogether (abstinence) something we enjoy as an intentional, Read more [...]

Hi Q

Posted on March 4, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

The pearl of great price is hidden everywhere— too simple to see ~ djm Spiritual Practice: Look, Notice, Behold, Appreciate, Give Thanks, Repeat ♣ ♣ ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SPIRITUAL DIRECTION ONLINE? Would you benefit from having a trustworthy Read more [...]

Hidden Treasure & Reeling Joy

Posted on February 11, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. ~ Mt. 13:44 Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. For I say to you, many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear Read more [...]

Joy & Delight ~ A Life-Line

Posted on January 29, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

I am convinced that if we are to survive the wait of justice and liberation, we must become people capable of delight. And people who have been delighted in. Some of us go our whole lives without ever being—or rather, knowing that we are—truly Read more [...]

Brother Weeps Gives Some Advice

Posted on January 25, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

Brother Weeps was not in the habit of giving advice. He guided people to discover and live into the deep truth of their own life. But I do remember once—maybe he was especially good-humored that day—when a sincere young buttoned-up professional-looking Read more [...]

A Father’s Grief, a Poem, and a Life-Line

Posted on January 17, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

One of the good fortunes of my time at the Claremont School of Theology and living for years afterward in the vicinity of the Claremont Colleges was how many opportunities I had to hear great poets read their poetry. I heard W.S. Merwin, Robert Haas, Read more [...]

The Vital Question — A Life-Line

Posted on January 11, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Life is: Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. And yet being alive is no answer to the problems of living. To be or not to be is not the question. The vital question is: how to be and how not to be? The tendency to forget Read more [...]

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