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Posted on October 30, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: We learn to praise God not by paying compliments, but by paying attention. Watch how the trees exult when the wind is in them. Mark the utter stillness of the great blue heron in the swamp. Listen to the sound of the rain. Learn Read more [...]

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Posted on October 9, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Six months ago I walked across Spain. Five hundred miles. Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. . . I saw my life. The Camino was my life. My life compressed to forty days and forty nights. A Read more [...]

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Posted on October 2, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: ”Even in the pit of hell, it’s a mitzvah to be joyful.” So said Rabbi Nachman of Bretslov, a mystic in the Hasidic tradition. A mitzvah is an act that honors the Divine. Even in hell, it is possible to be joyful, because Read more [...]

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Posted on September 25, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: On one of our visits to Daytona Beach I was eager to show my daughters some of my earlier haunts. We sauntered down the long street from the church to the riverfront. This had been the path of the procession to the baptismal Read more [...]

Pensées: Notes for Talks

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Pray to be able to greet death like a companion or a trusted friend waiting on the bank of the other shore who reaches out to you and helps you manage the last slippery stones of a rushing stream as you step safely across from life to new life. The Read more [...]

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Posted on September 4, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

(LABOR DAY) Today's Life-Line is: Messenger by Mary Oliver My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird--- equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here Read more [...]

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Posted on August 28, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: People say that what we're seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. ~ Read more [...]

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Posted on August 14, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to Read more [...]

Michael Crosby, O.F.M. Cap. 1940-2017

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

I just learned Fr. Michael Crosby died today. Michael, a Capuchin Franciscan from Milwaukee, was a frequent speaker and retreat leader at the Center for Spiritual Development where I worked for nearly 10 years. With his Franciscan heart, Michael was one Read more [...]

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Posted on July 24, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: To commit a crime against the natural world is a sin. ... For humans to cause species to become extinct and to destroy the biological diversity of God's creation, for humans to degrade the integrity of the earth by stripping the Read more [...]

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Michael Crosby, O.F.M. Cap. 1940-2017

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