The Skin-to-Skin of Divine Love

Posted on December 25, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today we celebrate the incarnation of love in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. In verse 1 of the prologue to his Gospel, the Evangelist John famously writes: In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The Greek Read more [...]

The Posts of Christmas Past

Posted on December 23, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2012/12/24/4361/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2018/12/24/life-line-147/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2017/12/25/the-unbecoming-of-god-the-incarnation-of-love/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2014/12/22/be-here-now/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2019/12/25/merry-christmas/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2012/12/25/christmas-prayer/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2020/12/25/a-christmas-blessing/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2010/12/24/christmas-eve-two-poems/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2016/12/24/healing-hope-peace-justice-joy/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2016/12/21/advent-2016-spiritual-surrogacy/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2016/12/30/btw-christians-christmas-implicates-us/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2017/12/24/if-you-want-a-poem-for-christmas-eve/ http://www.thesacredbraid.com/2017/12/25/the-unbecoming-of-god-the-incarnation-of-love/ Read more [...]

Into This World—ADVENT PRAYER 2021

Posted on December 21, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Into this world frazzled by haste bring us STILLNESS. We will be still in you. Into this world disgraced by greed bring us GRACE. We will move gracefully too. Into this world plagued with indifference bring us COMPASSION. We will embody compassion Read more [...]

Grace is a Happening that Evokes Our Two Vocations

Posted on December 19, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Before we knew it as a last-ditch effort to throw a football sixty yards with no time left on the clock into a mosh pit in the end zone, those of us who grew up Catholic knew the Hail Mary as a prayer, the words of which slid off the tongue as spontaneously Read more [...]

Poem for Friday of Third Week in Advent

Posted on December 17, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

In a Dark Time In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in the echoing wood-- A lord of nature weeping to a tree, I live between the heron and the wren, Beasts of the hill and serpents of Read more [...]

The Healing Power of Nature

Posted on November 28, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

From 1986 - 1988 I had the good fortune to be trained as a spiritual director or guide at the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation. I had four wonderful and wise teachers, all of whom were writers as well: psychiatrist and contemplative Read more [...]

You’re Fired ~ A Life-Line

Posted on November 17, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Once you know the God of love, you fire all the other gods. ~ Mirabai Starr ♣ ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SPIRITUAL DIRECTION ONLINE? Would you benefit from having a trustworthy companion to listen with you to your hopes, struggles, Read more [...]

Where Sacredness Makes a Home — A Life-Line

Posted on November 10, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: To speak of spirituality is to speak of that meeting of eternity with time, of heaven with earth; it is to recover a sense of the holiness of matter, the sacredness of this world of space and time when it is known as the place of Read more [...]

From the Archives: Self-Exploration

Posted on November 8, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

From the archives: The fear of self-exploration resides in the buried dread that what we will find will be either too much or too little to bear. The difficult and deliberate work of living maturely and soulfully, of becoming who we are intended Read more [...]

The Grace of God ~ A Life-Line

Posted on November 4, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. ~ Frederick Buechner ♣ ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SPIRITUAL DIRECTION Read more [...]

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