In the Bleak Midwinter, a Day to Re-Joy

Posted on December 12, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

. . . everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. ~ Isaiah 35:10b Today, the Third Sunday of Advent, is known as GAUDETE SUNDAY or Rejoice Sunday. Guadete in Latin means Read more [...]

Musica Memento 10 ~ Yearning for Our Home

Posted on December 9, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Yearning is perhaps best typed in italics because its modus operandi involves leaning into life. All genuine earthly yearnings are expressions of the one deep longing for the One Intimacy from which we come and in which we experience peace, taste Read more [...]

Musica Memento 9 ~ Magnificat: VI Esurientes

Posted on December 1, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

There are not many who can get me in the mood and spirit of Advent any better than John Rutter, English composer and conductor. The beauty of his Magnificat: VI Esurientes with soloist Patricia Forbes matches the beauty of this liturgical season—my Read more [...]

Talking Out Loud to Myself in the Humble Hope that Someone Might Overhear (2)

Posted on December 5, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

AND INSTEAD OF HAVING ME COMMITTED WILL COMMITTHEMSELVES TO DIVING DEEPER INTO THE MYSTERY ~ An Inner View Disguised as an Interview ~ No. 2. . . continued from December 3, 2019 MYSELF: I’d like to pick up where we left off. Read more [...]

Talking Out Loud to Myself in the Humble Hope that Someone Might Overhear (1)

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

AND INSTEAD OF HAVING ME COMMITTED WILL COMMITTHEMSELVES TO DIVING DEEPER INTO THE MYSTERY ~ An Inner View Disguised as an Interview ~ No. 1 MYSELF: Well , first, thank you for sitting down with me.DAN: Of course, my pleasure. Read more [...]

First Sunday of Advent

Posted on December 1, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

As we enter into the season of Advent, the four week run up to its culmination in “The Nativity of the Lord” and the Christmas mystery, we are once again made mindful not merely of the motif of darkness and light, but more so of the motif of Read more [...]

The Work of Christmas Begins – (Again)

Posted on December 30, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

I posted Howard Thurman's famous poem "The Work of Christmas" in 2014 and 2016. Keeping with my every other year pattern, I post it yet again. It would be worth your time to listen to Dan Forest's beautiful choral arrangement. The words of the text are Read more [...]

Hodie Christus Natus Est

Posted on December 25, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Christmas
is a mystery,
a message,
and a mission.

Wishing you
a joy-filled
Christmastide.
Extravagant Blessings
on all who find their way
to The Sacred Braid
and read THE ALMOND TREE.
~ Dan Read more [...]

Where Christ Is Present in This World

Posted on December 25, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Into this world, this demented inn
in which there is absolutely no room for him at all,
Christ comes uninvited.

But because he cannot be at home in it,
because he is out of place in it,
and yet he must be in it,
His place is with the others Read more [...]

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