About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

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 [...]

Brother Weeps on Two False Assumptions

Posted on January 8, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

This morning Brother Weeps finished his conference with a somewhat humorous but provocative postscript. He said, "Perhaps the two most costly false assumptions we make in life are, first, that because we are born human we know what it means to be human. Read more [...]

On the Ninth Day of Christmas

Posted on January 2, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

Tell all the truth but tell it slant. ~ Emily Dickinson TRUE CONFESSION: I'm not a big fan of the clichés that often arise in Christian circles. One that arose a couple of decades ago and still hangs around each Christmas like a chubby angel with Read more [...]

Hopes and Wishes for the New Year

Posted on January 1, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

As we turn the page from 2022 to 2023, we re-member ourselves to loved ones who have died and to those unknown to us who have made the final crossing. We entrust them to God's mercy and care, knowing they are in good company in God. My wishes Read more [...]

Brother Weeps on Friendship

Posted on December 29, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

If [one] part suffers, all the parts suffer with it; if one part is honored, all the parts share its joy. ~ 1 Corinthians 12:26 Brother Weeps once said, "There are two qualities that are at the heart of any deep friendship. One is compassion. Not Read more [...]

Winter Snow Song

Posted on December 28, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

I love the music of Advent and Christmas, especially the religious or sacred carols like Lo, How a Rose e'er Blooming, Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella, Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day, Silent Night, and O Holy Night. Below is a more contemporary Read more [...]

Rugged Individualists or Mutually Enhancing Participants?

Posted on December 27, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Not for ourselves alone are we born. ~ Cicero No one becomes human, no one becomes oneself by oneself. None of us become who we have been created by God to be without others. Becoming human, let alone becoming oneself, involves and requires human connection, Read more [...]

Christmas 2022 ~ To Be or Not to Be—Involved

Posted on December 25, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

And the word became flesh and dwelt among us as one of us. After arduous and diligent digs for the past twenty-five years at Mount Precipice, or Mount of the Leap, in the southern outskirts of Nazareth, overlooking the Jezre'el Valley, archeologists Read more [...]

ADVENT—ure No. 4

Posted on December 16, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

WANTED: Couriers of Love These days, with marketing insisting on playing top dog, authors are lucky if the books they write bear the names they choose. The books of Abraham Heschel, my spiritual guide and second favorite Rabbi, however, were written Read more [...]

ADVENT—ure No. 3

Posted on December 15, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Especially for parents and grandparents of little ones and adults who have forgotten how and why to jump. Preparing to Jump for Joy Many worlds ago, I used to work as a pastoral associate at a Catholic Church. From time to time our youth minister Read more [...]

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