Musing on Love

Posted on February 4, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

Being loved, or being the beloved, is not anything like being perfect. The drive for perfection we feel imposed upon us is a sure sign we don't fully buy into or accept the truth of our belovedness or the freely given and unconditional nature of Divine Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 5/1/18

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

The Power of the Powerless For about 35 years I have had the pleasure of going on retreat at Weston Priory. Tucked into the Green Mountains of Vermont, it is the home of a small community of Benedictine monks. I have gone with family, friends, and Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on September 18, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Late Fragment And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. ~ Raymond Carver Read more [...]

Our First Vocation

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

O love that fires the sun keep me burning. ~ Bruce Cockburn The man, bruised and filthy, chained by his feet and wrists to the wall, smiled to himself. Seeing this, the guard barked, “What are you smiling at?” The prisoner said softly, “You Read more [...]

The Preeminent Question

Posted on May 1, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

To say that there is a God, to say that God is, is to say that “love is the source, center, and destiny of experience.”[i] To be made in the image of God means that we are gifted-into-being, that our very being, our being at all, our being here Read more [...]

The Mystic: Proficient at Being Loved

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

We love because God first loved us. ~ 1 Jn. 4:19 Whatever else contemplative prayer is, it is the experience of allowing oneself to be loved by God.~ djm William Johnston, the Jesuit teacher and specialist in East-West mysticism, asserts that mysticism Read more [...]

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