Life-Line

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Our Father, Mother, who are in the world and surpass the world, blessed by your presence, in us, in animals and flowers, in still air and wind. May justice and peace dwell among us as you come to us. Your will be our will. You 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 [...]

Prayer and Descent

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

As we make the transition from practicing prayer to practicing descent, I wanted to reiterate something I said on Sunday about prayer that is kin to the journey downward, whether as intentional spiritual practice or as the unsolicited gravity of life. I Read more [...]

Remembering Where We Come From

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

As mystics know so well, just as there is no one word or name adequate to address G-d, there is no one image that is big or deep enough to capture the essence of prayer. So, like the mystics, I continue to offer a variety of images in the hope that one Read more [...]

A Kneeler in Training

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Two memories from my pre-Vatican II childhood that stick with me to this day revolve around kneeling. One is of my father, a man of simple but substantive faith, a man like all men blessed and broken, leaving the church pew, going up to the altar railing Read more [...]

Pray As You Can

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

At our last H&H gathering when I spoke about the practice of prayer I mentioned that there is no one way to pray, that we need to pray as we can not as we can’t, and that we need to be careful not to violate the very spirit of prayer by suggesting Read more [...]

Prayer Engages Us in Reality

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

I have always agreed with the Anglican priest and theologian Kenneth Leech who writes that an authentic spirituality is one that necessarily points people in the direction of reality and equips them in some way to move consciously and faithfully in that Read more [...]

Prayer as Beholding

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Daniel J. Miller

So we (H&H) make the transition from a month of focusing on practicing silence and simplicity to a month of practicing prayer. This transition should not be the least bit jarring as silence and simplicity are intimately related and indispensable to Read more [...]

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