About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

Life-Line

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Resurrection is not a consoling opium, soothing us with the promise of a better world in the hereafter. It is the energy for a rebirth of this life. The hope doesn’t point to another world. It is focused on the redemption of Read more [...]

Easter Sunday– for Joy!

Posted on April 16, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

I thank you God for most this amazing i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything which Read more [...]

Holy Saturday — The Fertile Darkness

Posted on April 15, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Fine wine takes time. ~ every skilled vintner It takes a very long time to become young. ~ Pablo Picasso I have said elsewhere that the tendency to skip over Good Friday and to rush unperturbed and undisturbed in our Sunday best to Easter is fraught Read more [...]

Good Friday

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

"The key is to risk facing into the Good Friday’s that we inflict on others knowingly and unintentionally, to not detour around the agony in the gardens and the crucifixions that are occurring around us, and to admit to and repent for our complicity Read more [...]

Holy Thursday

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Jesus rose from supper and took off his outer garments. He took a towel and tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and dry them with the towel around his waist. . . . I have given you Read more [...]

Wednesday of Holy Week

Posted on April 12, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

As a way of preparing to enter more fully into Triduum (Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday) which begins tomorrow, I invite you to take a look at this reflection: Triduum: The Story of Our Life in God from Holy Week of 2014. Read more [...]

Tuesday of Holy Week – Can You Hear the Alleluia Ripening?

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

As the rhapsody of Springtime awakens the wildflowers from their sleep in the foothills by my home in a rare profusion of flower power, we turn the corner from the season of Lent toward our High Holy Days beginning Thursday Evening and culminating in Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. ~ G. K. Chesterton Read more [...]

The Authority of Love

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

At its core, the Christ-life specifically, and the spiritual life more broadly, involves the recentering of our subjectivity from self to God. In this conscious, ongoing, and radical realignment there is a dethroning of successive emperors who rule and Read more [...]

Another Kind of Praise: A Life-Line

Posted on April 3, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Praise is joy aimed at God. But when the heart breaks, when everything we taste is bitter as lemon pith, when all we have to offer the Holy One is vulnerability, fragility, regret, the poverty of our sorrow or grief, worry Read more [...]

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Author Archives: Daniel J. Miller

About Daniel J. Miller

Life-Line

Easter Sunday– for Joy!

Holy Saturday — The Fertile Darkness

Good Friday

Holy Thursday

Wednesday of Holy Week

Tuesday of Holy Week – Can You Hear the Alleluia Ripening?

Life-Line

The Authority of Love

Another Kind of Praise: A Life-Line