About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 8/7/18

Posted on August 7, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Several years ago on the popular television program "The Muppet Show" three of the puppet characters were on a rocket ship hurtling through space. A voice announced over the loudspeaker: "In two minutes we will reach the end of the universe and Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on August 6, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: This is not going to be your usual funeral homily, but Archbishop Hunthausen was not your usual bishop, was he? And I know: a homily is supposed to break open the scriptures and shed light on them. But Archbishop Hunthausen’s Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 7/31/18

Posted on July 31, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

It is my conviction that humans are a hungry lot starving not merely for attention but for blessing. I have written elsewhere (e.g. here), that to know oneself as blessed (as distinct from fortunate as the beatitudes of Jesus make clear) and to know one’s Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on July 30, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: We are so addicted, either to materialism or to transcending material reality, that we don’t see God right in front of us, in the beggar, the starving child, the brokenhearted woman; in our friend; in the cat; in the flea. Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 7/24/18

Posted on July 24, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

As I posted yesterday, retired Seattle Archbishop Raymond “Dutch” Hunthausen died this past Sunday. He led the Catholic archdiocese of Seattle from 1975 - 1991. From the moment I met him, I found him to be impressive. He was the least power-driven Read more [...]

Raymond “Dutch” Hunthausen – (1921 – 2018) R.I.P.

Posted on July 23, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

I've been out all day and so I am only now hearing from friends that Archbishop Raymond "Dutch" Hunthausen died yesterday. He was 96. What a great man -- he was humble, pastoral, an attentive listener, about as unpretentious as any church leader I Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on July 23, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find. ~ Terry Tempest Williams Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: And I strive to discover how to signal my companions . . . to say in time a simple word, a password, like conspirators, let us unite, let us hold each other tightly, let us merge our hearts, let us create for earth a brain Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 7/10/18

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

You have to understand that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story. ~ Anthony de Mello The guru sat in meditation on the riverbank when a disciple bent down to place two enormous pearls at Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on July 9, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The ultimate concern of the human must be the integrity of the universe upon which the human depends in such an absolute manner . . . Even our sense of the divine comes to us mainly, not through scriptural communication, Read more [...]

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About Daniel J. Miller

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 8/7/18

Life-Line

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 7/31/18

Life-Line

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 7/24/18

Raymond “Dutch” Hunthausen – (1921 – 2018) R.I.P.

Life-Line

Life-Line

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 7/10/18

Life-Line