Advent Prayer I
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Advent Blessings to you. Click here for a prayer for the first week of Advent. Read more [...]
Author Archives: Daniel J. Miller
What Makes the Soul Great
For the past 18 months I have been listening to the now President-Elect repeatedly encourage his followers with the slogan "Let's Make America Great Again." All the while I have been acutely aware of how different his understanding of greatness is Read more [...]
Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
Blessed are the men and women
who are planted on your earth, in your
garden
who grow as your trees and flowers grow,
who transform their darkness into light.
Their roots plunge into darkness;
their faces turn toward Read more [...]
Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.*
~ Julian of Norwich
*Note Well -- The spirit of Julian's famous line is not passivity or Pollyannaish do-nothingism but rather deep, abiding, Read more [...]
Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
"I will be so glad when this is finally over." ~ Every sane citizen in America Read more [...]
This Just In: God Is a Cubs Fan
Thursday, November 3, 2016
A Divine-Human Dispatch
This just in -- much to the chagrin and embarrassment of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens (God rest his soul), and minor leaguers Bill Maher and Penn Read more [...]
Saints Alive!
I was relistening to a podcast this week in which the interviewee, Francis Weller, a psychotherapist, writer, and expert in the healing work of grief ritual, made the comment that in his work he sees two ailments that especially seem to afflict people Read more [...]
Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
The saint is not the extraordinary doing the extraordinary ordinarily.
The saint is the ordinary doing the ordinary extraordinarily.
~ Dan Miller Read more [...]
Life-Line
Today's Life-Line is:
Autumn
The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,
as if orchards were dying high in space.
Each leaf falls as if it were motioning “no.”
And tonight the heavy earth is falling
away from all other stars Read more [...]
Everyday Spirituality: Finding God in All Things
Context:
This past Sunday the spiritual formation community I lead gathered. Our theme was "In the Chapel of Eggs: Prayer and Daily Living." Yesterday I sent H&H members a brief reflection on fixed-hour prayer that is most visibly seen in the intentional Read more [...]