A Prayer of the Heart

Posted on November 18, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

You, for whom we have so many names, You, for whom no name will do, help us learn to live into the name that you have stitched on the inside of our heart, the name that only you know and whisper to us like a lover in the night. Open the ears Read more [...]

On Prayer

Posted on April 16, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

A woman once said to a monk, “I have run out of prayers to say.” "Ah, good,” said the monk. “Prayer is what happens when you have run out of words.” ~ Author Unknown ARTWORK: I greatly appreciate the work of Read more [...]

We Should Not Divide Prayer Against the Rest of Our Life

Posted on December 26, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

The following explanation of a LIFE-LINE was the preface to my first Life-Line posted on January 11, 2016: "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 Read more [...]

A Prayer, a Vision, a Call

Posted on August 21, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

O Divine Spirit! During the weeks and months ahead, stir our hearts and minds that we might fight for a vision that is worthy of you and your call to honor the dignity of all of your creation. A vision of who we are as a people, grounded in Read more [...]

Conspiring with God

Posted on March 29, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

A Lenten Reflection ~ 33 3/29/20 NOTE: I am doubling down on this breath theme (i.e. after yesterday's post. CLICK "<-- Previous" above. There is no season, whether in nature, the liturgical cycle, or the human adventure, which does not know Read more [...]

Every Breath You Take

Posted on March 28, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

A Lenten Reflection ~ 32 NOTE: This reflection was originally posted on February 21, 2013. As posted here today, it has been significantly revised. Then the LORD God formed the earth-creature1 out of the dust of the ground and blew into the earth-creature’s Read more [...]

Brother Weeps Drives Up a Hill

Posted on February 12, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

A student asked Brother Weeps, “To what can you compare prayer?” Brother Weeps sat quietly with the question, then said, “Once, a long time ago, when I was much younger, I was driving a beat-up old car in a big city late at night. I came to an Read more [...]

Brother Weeps Speaks on Silence

Posted on January 14, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

"Brother Weeps, what happens when you pray and all you hear back is silence?" asked a young woman, implying perhaps that prayer doesn't work or that God isn't there or that she must be doing something wrong. "Well, then it's time you learn the Read more [...]

AJH on Praise

Posted on November 23, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

I want to follow up my comments of November 16 with some thoughts of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907 – 1972) on praise. An apologist for wonder, Heschel has much to say about its fruition. Rabbi Heschel maintains that wonder, what he Read more [...]

More on Praise & Musica Memento 4

Posted on November 20, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

. . . Continued from previous post.
Then the Creator formed the red earth creature*
out of the dust of the ground
and blew into the creature's nostrils the breath of life,
and the creature became a living being. ~ Gen. 2: 7
Let everything that Read more [...]

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