Find Your Own Calcutta ~ Two Life-Lines:

Posted on June 13, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Lines are a follow-up to my post on June 10, 2022, on COMPASSION. I link compassion immediately with intimacy. Compassion is the ability to vitally imagine what it is like to be an other, the force that makes a bridge from the island of Read more [...]

I Am a Traveler, too. And You?

Posted on January 17, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

What would it mean if we led with compassion? This is what I'm chewing on this weekend. By led I'm not referring to showing the way, guiding by example or escorting others. I'm talking about how we present ourselves, how we step out each morning, encounter Read more [...]

Brother Weeps on the Withness of God

Posted on April 24, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Brother Weeps taught that the gospel of Jesus is not so much that God comes to save us, but that God saves us by coming to us and by being with us as one of us. ~ Dan Miller. All Rights Reserved. © 2019. COMMENTARY: For those of us who come Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 15, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The compassion of Jesus is to be understood not simply as a personal emotional reaction but as a public criticism in which he dares to act upon his concern against the entire numbness of his social context. Empires Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 9/25/18

Posted on September 25, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

I have used the story below in a variety of settings and contexts since 1999 when I first read it in the Jesuit Review America Magazine. It is based on a real life experience and, as it turns out, is a contemporary rendering of a very old, and very Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on September 10, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Jesus in his solidarity with the marginal ones is moved to compassion. Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on June 25, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The strategy of Jesus is not centered in taking the right stand on issues, but rather in standing in the right place—with the outcast and those relegated to the margins. ~ Gregory J. Boyle Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 5/22/18

Posted on May 22, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

The Prisoner and the Potato Tosser Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.~ Dalai Lama XIV In 2009, John J. McNeill psychotherapist, theologian, and Catholic priest received New Ways Ministry’s Read more [...]

A Solidarity that Withstands Suffering ~ A Life-Line

Posted on January 29, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: In his book Night, Elie Wiesel wrote about his horrifying childhood experiences in a Nazi concentration camp. Having gone without food or drink for three days. thousands of Jews were driven out of their barracks at dawn into Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on December 26, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone, When the kings and princes are home, When the shepherds are back with their flock, The work of Christmas begins: To find the lost, To heal the broken, To Read more [...]

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Category Archives: Compassion

Find Your Own Calcutta ~ Two Life-Lines:

I Am a Traveler, too. And You?

Brother Weeps on the Withness of God

Life-Line

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 9/25/18

Life-Line

Life-Line

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 5/22/18

A Solidarity that Withstands Suffering ~ A Life-Line

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