Life-Line

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost Read more [...]

Being Human — Being Moved

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It is that simple. What you see is Read more [...]

Asking Permission to “Be” Once Again

Posted on May 28, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

I have been reading Matthew Fox’s new book A Way to God: Thomas Merton’s Creation Spirituality Journey courtesy of a long-time member of The Human & the Holy spiritual formation community. Merton, one of the most important spiritual writers Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise — Effulgence

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Effulgence [ih-fuhl-juh ns] This week’s word is effulgence. Literally it means a shining forth and refers to a brilliant radiance. One of the reasons I was first drawn to the writings of Abraham Heschel was because of the sheer beauty of the language. 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 [...]

The Mystic: Susceptible to Now

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

Awe is a sense for the transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery behind all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine . . . to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple; to feel in the rush of Read more [...]

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