Poem 2 for The Season of Creation*

Posted on September 7, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Reverence The air vibrated with the sound of cicadas on those hot Missouri nights after sundown when the grown-ups gathered on the wide back lawn, sank into their slung-back canvas chairs tall glasses of iced tea beading in the heat and we sisters Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on March 12, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the hidden and holy heart of it because in the Read more [...]

Easter Sunday– for Joy!

Posted on April 16, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

I thank you God for most this amazing i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything which Read more [...]

Of Mystics and Prophets, of You and Me

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

My favorite quote to illuminate what it means to be holy is the well-worn line from St. Iranaeus: “The glory of God is the human person fully alive.” From the perspective of faith, the sacred drama of life involves and avails us the opportunity to Read more [...]

Reading Poetry as an Imaginal Act

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

~ 2010-2011 Theme: Poetry for the Sacred Journey ~ One of the most important books that I have read over the years is a thin book (127 pages) by scripture scholar Walter Brueggemann called The Prophetic Imagination. A succinct, eloquent, and powerful Read more [...]

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Poem 2 for The Season of Creation*

Life-Line

Easter Sunday– for Joy!

Of Mystics and Prophets, of You and Me

Reading Poetry as an Imaginal Act