All Souls Day ~ A Remembrance

Posted on November 2, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

I will never forget to remember that I love you. ~ DJM Today we re-member ourselves to those who have died, to those we knew and loved and to all those we never knew but who were known and loved and grieved by a mother or father, brother or sister, Read more [...]

All Saints Day

Posted on November 1, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

It was because the saints were absorbed in God that they were truly capable of seeing and appreciating created things and it was because they loved [God] alone that they alone loved everybody. ~ Thomas Merton Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise ~ Integrity / Part 4

Posted on October 30, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Integrity [ in–teg–ri-tee ] Part 4, The righteous walk in integrity— happy are the children who follow them. ~ Proverbs 20:7 Cease to do evil. Learn to do good. Make justice your home forever. ~ Isaiah 1:16 If the main arbiter for Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise ~ Integrity / Part 3

Posted on October 30, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Integrity [ in-teg-ri-tee ] Part 3, Saturday's Screed Only one question is worthy of supreme anxiety: How to live in a world pestered with lies and remain unpolluted, how not to be stricken with despair, not to flee but to fight and Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise ~ Integrity / Part 2

Posted on October 28, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Integrity [ in–teg–ri-tee ] Part 2 Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when they are punished, says Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise ~ Integrity / Part 1

Posted on October 24, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Integrity [ in-teg-ri-tee ] Part 1 The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them. ~ Proverbs 11:3 You have upheld me because of my integrity, and set me in your presence forever. Read more [...]

“I Was Wondering if You— “

Posted on October 22, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

We’re all just walking each other home. ~ Ram Dass I have never been anywhere but sick. In a sense sickness is a place more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it’s always a place where nobody can follow. Sickness before death is Read more [...]

Acting Our Way into Belief ~ A Life-Line

Posted on October 19, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Bridges once wrote Gerard Manley Hopkins and asked him to tell him how he, Bridges, could believe. Bridges was an agnostic. Hopkins wrote back, "Give alms." ~ Flannery O'Connor Goodpeople, thank you for visiting THE ALMOND TREE. So Read more [...]

Abolishing Division ~ A Life-Line

Posted on October 15, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-line is: Joy, laughter, and delight are so powerful because, like all mysticism, they abolish conventional divisions, in this case the division between secular and sacred. ~ Dorothee Soelle I have long appreciated what I call "the Read more [...]

Why a Regular Spiritual Practice?

Posted on October 13, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Buddhists say enlightenment is always accidental, but that spiritual practice makes us accident prone. Jim Finley, clinical psychologist, teacher of the contemplative way, and former student of Thomas Merton describes contemplative practice this Read more [...]

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