About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

Life-Line

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Occasionally The Sacred Braid will feature a Life-Line for the day or the coming week. As I am offering it, a Life-line is meant to point the way, to guide us to safety, to deliver food that nourishes us, or to keep us tethered to reality. A life-line Read more [...]

Being the Image of God

Posted on November 23, 2015 by Daniel J. Miller

For Rabbi Heschel, to be human means to be made in the image and likeness of God. Being made in God’s image is the sign of both God’s love and our human dignity. What being the imago Dei means to Heschel is a bit different than how people often Read more [...]

A Radical Love

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Daniel J. Miller

Some years ago I watched a made-for-TV movie that I found provocative. Called Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Women, each story had its own separate title. The first story “Mamusha,” starred Elizabeth Perkins as Gertruda Babilinska, a Catholic housekeeper Read more [...]

A Rendezvous with Love

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Daniel J. Miller

"I'm letting God love me." ~ Archbishop Raymnd Hunthausen To be loved, to open oneself to receive love, makes us capable of loving others. More and more I realize the need for us to understand prayer as a rendezvous with love, as the receiving and Read more [...]

The Fourth and Fifth Aspects of Love

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Daniel J. Miller

On the Human Person “The fourth aspect of love is celebration,” writes Vanier. “It is not enough to reveal to people their value, to understand and care for them. To love people is also to celebrate them. . . . [E]very child, every person, needs Read more [...]

The Second and Third Aspects of Love

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Daniel J. Miller

On the Human Person The second aspect of love according to what Vanier has learned living in L’Arche communities, is the call to understand. The world often seems saturated with judgment and seriously lacking in understanding. What’s worse is that Read more [...]

End of Year Reflections

Posted on May 30, 2015 by Daniel J. Miller

Note: I have decided to upload this [edited and abridged] end-of-the-year letter to the H&H community in the hopes that it might have something of value to those outside this gathered community. Our focus for the year was "Embracing Life, Engaging Read more [...]

The Madness of March, the Audacity of April

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Daniel J. Miller

"There is no resurrection that is not the resurrection of love" ~ Dan Miller The Madness of March, the Audacity of April In the culture, at least the American sporting culture, these past two or three weeks and this week especially are considered Read more [...]

Taking Stock

Posted on February 28, 2015 by Daniel J. Miller

Saturday, The First Week of Lent, YEAR B I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not Read more [...]

The Audacity of Hope

Posted on February 22, 2015 by Daniel J. Miller

Contrary to the gloom and doom atmosphere that sometimes is assumed to be the proper mood of this season, the word Lent comes from the word meaning to lengthen and refers to the coming of springtime, the coming of more and more daylight. Admittedly, it Read more [...]

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