Life-Line

Posted on January 7, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: I made a painting that has holes in it. Why is there holes? Because God says to us, I can not do all. I can create you, but I cannot do it all. You have to help Me fix the holes and put everything together. This is the learning Read more [...]

The Invitations of Epiphany

Posted on January 7, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

It seems almost constitutionally impossible to be Irish and not be a lover of words and with one side of the family littered with Morans and Linehans, it is understandable that I am and always have been a logophile. When my children were old enough Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on November 12, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: A person who debases himself, a malicious man with a forked tongue saying one thing then the other, winking smugly with his eyes, walking his crooked talk, pointing accusingly with his finger, devising evil with his Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Is there a richer and stranger idea in the world than grace? Only love, grace's cousin, grace's summer pelt. We think of grace arriving like an ambulance, a just-in-time delivery, an invisible divine cavalry cresting a hill of troubles, a bolt Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 9/11/18

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

NOTE WELL: The following essay by the late Brian Doyle is considered by many to be the most moving piece of writing about 9/11. That being said, it may be upsetting for some readers. Kyrie eleison. LEAP A couple leaped from the south tower, hand Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 9/4/18

Posted on September 4, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

The following story comes from an eighteenth-century Hebrew book. A young man once wanted to become a blacksmith. So he became an apprentice to a blacksmith, and he learned all the necessary techniques of the trade: how to hold the tongs, how Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on September 3, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: To make bread or love, to dig in the earth, to feed an animal or cook for a stranger—these activities require no extensive commentary, no lucid theology. All they require is someone willing to bend, reach, chop, stir. Most Read more [...]

Small Catholic Group Chastised and Warned

Posted on August 29, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

The Little Brothers and Sisters of Joy and Delight at the rite of peace. Oh, Oh. Wednesday, August 29, 2018 U.S. Today (and Maybe Tomorrow - We Shall See) A tiny group of Catholics were publicly chastised and warned of more severe measures Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on August 27, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we will have to do what we can with the third. ~ Aubrey Menen, from Rama Retold, a modern retelling of Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on July 30, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: We are so addicted, either to materialism or to transcending material reality, that we don’t see God right in front of us, in the beggar, the starving child, the brokenhearted woman; in our friend; in the cat; in the flea. Read more [...]

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The Invitations of Epiphany

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TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 9/11/18

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 9/4/18

Life-Line

Small Catholic Group Chastised and Warned

Life-Line

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