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Today's Life-Line is:
Don't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n you let the humor blot out the pain.
~ Slight adaptation from Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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Author Archives: Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is:
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last Read more [...]
Going to Peace
This past Monday through Wednesday in Rome there was an unprecedented conference hosted by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace that elicited a landmark result. Some 80 participants from around the world gathered at the Vatican to discuss Jesus' Read more [...]
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Today's Life-Line is:
Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.
~ Ram Dass
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Resurrection: The Radical Imperative
The consumerist society in which we live has successfully commercialized religious holidays. This is well known, easily observed, and not a little ink has been spilled reminding us of it. Easter is no exception.
And yet, the blame game where Christians Read more [...]
Out of the Mouths of Babes
When my children were young, even back-seat-in-my-rear-view-mirror young, I used to derive a certain covert and droll pleasure from talking to them about various theological topics or spiritual issues as if they were my colleagues. Partially out of a Read more [...]
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Today's Life-Line is:
Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours.
Yours are the eyes through which Christ’s compassion
is to look out to the world.
Yours are the feet with which Christ is to
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A Poem for These Days
The Peace of Wild Things
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests Read more [...]
Practicing Resurrection
Hey Goodpeople—
Since Easter is a season not a day, here is a 2009 reflection on one aspect of Practicing Resurrection:
http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2009/12/03/simplcity-helps-us-see-the-essential/
Here’s to eastering, Dan Read more [...]
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Today’s Life-Line is:
To be alive: not just the carcass
But the spark.
That's crudely put, but…
If we're not supposed to dance,
Why all this music?
~ Gregory Orr
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