Advent Prayer IV
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Advent Blessings to you. Click here for a prayer for the fourth week of Advent. Read more [...]
Author Archives: Daniel J. Miller
Incarnation as Compassionate Solidarity
From Advent 2009:
The gospel of God is not so much that God comes to save us but that God saves us by coming to us, by coming and being with us as one of us. God’s saving presence is manifested and accomplished not by the Divine waving a magic celestial Read more [...]
Advent: Silence, Simplicity, & Spaciousness
Advent is a season of simplicity and spaciousness. The biblical narratives of this season involve simple people doing simple things. And yet, it is in the simplicity that room is made for that which is extraordinary. Simplicity, as Thoreau knew so Read more [...]
Sister Mahala on the Biggest Dark & the Littlest Light
"And you, Sister Mahala,
where do you find hope?"
asked the young woman.
"I find hope in knowing that
I have never met a dark
that couldn't hold a light.
And I have never met
even the littlest light
that wasn't stronger
than the biggest dark."
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Advent: Remembering The Victims from Sandy Hook
The piece "The Carol of the Season: I Am with You," first appeared on The Almond Tree, December 15, 2012. Today is the 4th anniversary of that terrible day in Newtown, CT when so many people's lives were scarred by heartless Read more [...]
Advent 2016: The Reason for the Seasons
Christians would do well to stop blaming the big, bad secular culture for the bastardization of Christmas and to retire the accusatory, catchy slogans. Instead, we are heralded, as we always have been heralded, to prepare the inn of our hearts and Read more [...]
Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred,
and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
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Advent Prayer III
Advent Blessings to you. Click here for a prayer for the third week of Advent. Read more [...]
Remembering Merton
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business.
What we are asked to do is to love,
and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors Read more [...]
Advent: Paying Attention to the Middle Child
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True Hope is nobody’s fool. It is fierce, neither for the faint of heart nor for those infatuated with fantasy. It’s a conscious choice, a deliberate way of being in the world while facing the uncertainties and tragedies and dark Read more [...]