The Coming of Christmas and the Birth of the Rebel Jesus

Posted on December 22, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

rebel [noun, adjective reb-uhl; verb ri-bel ] a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of their country. Except in Jesus' case, it was adamantly an insurrection without arms. Read more [...]

Why I Do What I Do — An Advent Reflection

Posted on December 16, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

E-mman-u-el [ ih-man-yoo-uhl ] from Hebrew ʿimmānū'ēl “God is with us” I was listening the other day to an interview with Chris Herren who is in his mid-forties. He’s a humble, insightful, and articulate man. And he’s doing such Read more [...]

ADVENT—ure No. 4

Posted on December 16, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

WANTED: Couriers of Love These days, with marketing insisting on playing top dog, authors are lucky if the books they write bear the names they choose. The books of Abraham Heschel, my spiritual guide and second favorite Rabbi, however, were written Read more [...]

ADVENT—ure No. 3

Posted on December 15, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Especially for parents and grandparents of little ones and adults who have forgotten how and why to jump. Preparing to Jump for Joy Many worlds ago, I used to work as a pastoral associate at a Catholic Church. From time to time our youth minister Read more [...]

ADVENT—ure No. 2 (2022)

Posted on December 1, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Be still and know that I am God. ~ Psalm 46:10 Advent: the time to listen for footsteps – you can’t hear footsteps when you’re running yourself. ~ Bill McKibben It is the nature of each and all metaphors to work and not work. When we said Read more [...]

ADVENT—ure No. 1 (2022)

Posted on November 29, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

The moment is sovereign. The instant supreme. Two things to keep in mind and heart. Two things to re-member yourself to: One: Don't just be here. Be present here. Two: Be present and Stay out of the way. ~djmiller, tuesday, the first week 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 [...]

In the Bleak Midwinter, a Day to Re-Joy

Posted on December 12, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

. . . everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. ~ Isaiah 35:10b Today, the Third Sunday of Advent, is known as GAUDETE SUNDAY or Rejoice Sunday. Guadete in Latin means Read more [...]

Musica Memento 10 ~ Yearning for Our Home

Posted on December 9, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Yearning is perhaps best typed in italics because its modus operandi involves leaning into life. All genuine earthly yearnings are expressions of the one deep longing for the One Intimacy from which we come and in which we experience peace, taste Read more [...]

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