Raymond “Dutch” Hunthausen – (1921 – 2018) R.I.P.

Posted on July 23, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

I've been out all day and so I am only now hearing from friends that Archbishop Raymond "Dutch" Hunthausen died yesterday. He was 96. What a great man -- he was humble, pastoral, an attentive listener, about as unpretentious as any church leader I Read more [...]

A Tree of Life

Posted on May 22, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

NOTE: The letter below is a final note sent to the spiritual formation community I started and have led since 2003. In it I offer a Reflection Exercise for the summer months when we do not meet. It was offered as an addendum to our final gathering which Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on July 25, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Do all the good you can By all the means you can In all the ways you can In all the places you can At all the times you can To all the people you can As long as ever you can. ~ John Wesley, Journal, 1790 Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live Read more [...]

Of Cookies, Cancer, and Significant Living

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

◊ Listening to Boredom (continued) Life is significant because it is LIFE, because without it nothing would be, because we didn’t do anything to obtain or deserve it, and because we can serve it by being witnesses and bearers of it. We do this Read more [...]

Of Death, Birth, Old Souls, Suffering & Simple Gifts

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

This week marked the thirty-eighth anniversary of my mom's death. My daughter, who never met my mother, was born twenty-six years from the date of her grandmother's death. Since my daughter's birth, this date has always had symbolic significance for me. Read more [...]

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Raymond “Dutch” Hunthausen – (1921 – 2018) R.I.P.

A Tree of Life

Life-Line

Life-Line

Of Cookies, Cancer, and Significant Living

Of Death, Birth, Old Souls, Suffering & Simple Gifts