About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

Little Books with Big Meaning

Posted on August 2, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

The last class I offered the last year I worked full-time in a parish was titled “The Mustard Seed Conspiracy: Little Books with Big Meaning.” The title was lifted from a book by Tom Sine. I thought it sounded tantalizingly subversive. The sub-title Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

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Today’s Life-Line is:

We can never be born enough. ~ E.E. Cummings

A Word to the Wise — Kindness

Posted on July 31, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Kindness [kahynd-nis] “What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver “The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on July 25, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Do all the good you can By all the means you can In all the ways you can In all the places you can At all the times you can To all the people you can As long as ever you can. ~ John Wesley, Journal, 1790 Read more [...]

A Non-Traditional Blessing

Posted on July 22, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Two weeks ago I posted a prayer here that I thought fitting given the senseless violence that was spreading throughout American cities. I had been familiar with versions of this prayer for many years but never knew the author. As I mentioned at the bottom Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on July 21, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today’s Life-Line is: Ultimately we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world. ~ Read more [...]

A Disturbing Blessing

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

May God bless us with discomfort at easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships so that we may live from deep within our hearts. May God bless us with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of God's creations so that we may Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on July 4, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today’s Life-Line is: At the end of a talk he was giving as part of a 100th anniversary celebration of a synagogue, Elie Wiesel was asked a final question by one of the teenagers in attendance. The young person asked the guest speaker if he could Read more [...]

To the Unseeable Animal

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

My daughter: I hope there’s an animal somewhere that nobody has ever seen. And I hope that nobody ever sees it. Being, whose flesh dissolves at our glance, knower of the secret sums and measures, you are always here, dwelling in the oldest sycamores, visiting Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

The Life-Line below is my response to those searching for a DNA-based argument for the existence of God. Today's Life-Line is: I hope there’s an animal somewhere that nobody has ever seen. And I hope Read more [...]

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Author Archives: Daniel J. Miller

About Daniel J. Miller

Little Books with Big Meaning

Life-Line

A Word to the Wise — Kindness

Life-Line

A Non-Traditional Blessing

Life-Line

A Disturbing Blessing

Life-Line

To the Unseeable Animal

Life-Line