The Assumption of Spirituality ~ A Life-Line

Posted on March 10, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The assumption of spirituality is that always God is doing something before I know it. So the task is not to get God to do something I think needs to be done but to become aware of what God is doing so that I can respond to it Read more [...]

It All Depends on What We Do with the Unless

Posted on January 1, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

I've never been much invested in New Year's Eve, New Year's Day (except for the years when I watched the Bowl games), or the practice of making New Year's resolutions. I've synced my psyche these last four-plus decades more to the liturgical calendar Read more [...]

Help Us to See

Posted on January 30, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Days pass and the years vanish and we walk sightless among miracles. [You] fill our eyes with seeing and our minds with knowing. Let there be moments when your Presence, like lightning, illumines the darkness in which we walk. Help us to see, wherever Read more [...]

More Merton — How to Know God

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

"You don't go looking for an object called God." You stop trying to reach God by educating your intellect. But you do try to awaken your heart. So, therefore, the great study of the monk* is to have an awakened heart. And, of course, you have to Read more [...]

Cultivate Gratefulness

Posted on November 28, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Gathering Read more [...]

A Week with Mary Oliver — Day 7

Posted on January 26, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Mindful
Every day
I see or hear
something
that more or less
kills me
with delight,
that leaves me
like a needle
in the haystack
of light.
It was what I was born for--
to look, to listen,
to lose myself
inside this soft world--
to instruct Read more [...]

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