Life-Line

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The art of being human is the art of being whole: wholly related to the whole of reality. The word for this exquisite human response to the manifold in the One is holiness. Far from a diminution Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Our Father, Mother, who are in the world and surpass the world, blessed by your presence, in us, in animals and flowers, in still air and wind. May justice and peace dwell among us as you come to us. Your will be our will. You 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 [...]

Our Real Vocation: Becoming Human

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

“Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny.” ~ Thomas Merton As most of you know, next to Jesus, Abraham Heschel is my Rabbi of choice and much of that Read more [...]

Where Are You?

Posted on December 27, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

"If you hallow this life you meet the living God " ~ Martin Buber In 1961, Senior Lieutenant Yuri Gagarin, the Russian Cosmonaut who was the first person to orbit earth, dropped the already frigid temperature of the Cold War era even further when Read more [...]

The Fear of Self-Exploration

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

◊ Listening to Boredom (continued) "We cannot become ourselves unless we know ourselves." ~ Thomas Merton ~ First, there is the fear of self-exploration. The work meant by this hyphenated word goes by many names these days: inner work, the journey Read more [...]

Imaging God

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

Wednesday of the 2nd Week of Lent YEAR B (Mt. 20: 20-28) Whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave; just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give Read more [...]

Be Holy

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

Many times when teaching people the practice of lectio divina (meditatively praying with scripture), I have quipped, “Start with the Psalms or maybe one of the gospels. You probably want to stay away from Leviticus.” By the comment I meant to suggest Read more [...]

Widening the Circle of Compassion

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Recently I was in Louisville, Kentucky and I had the urge to ask the airport cabbie to take me to Fourth and Walnut (now 4th and Muhammad Ali Boulevard) where Thomas Merton had his famous epiphany. But since it was late at night and dark, and I did not Read more [...]

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Tag Archives: Becoming Human

Life-Line

Life-Line

Of Mystics and Prophets, of You and Me

Our Real Vocation: Becoming Human

Where Are You?

The Fear of Self-Exploration

Imaging God

Be Holy

Widening the Circle of Compassion