The Vital Question — A Life-Line

Posted on January 11, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Life is: Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. And yet being alive is no answer to the problems of living. To be or not to be is not the question. The vital question is: how to be and how not to be? The tendency to forget Read more [...]

What We Breathe Out into the World Makes All the Difference

Posted on May 16, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

One drop continually dripped wears away even the strongest stone. Little strokes fell great oaks. No one comes out of their mother's womb hateful, racist, or evil. More and more I've come to believe that to be a Christ-one—or minimally, a person Read more [...]

A Sense of Significant Being ~ A Life-Line

Posted on December 28, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: "It takes three things to attain a sense of significant being: God A Soul and a Moment. And the three are always there. Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy." Abraham Joshua Heschel ♣ ARE YOU INTERESTED Read more [...]

Brother Weeps on Spiritual Practices

Posted on June 14, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Once, Brother Weeps began a teaching this way: I received a letter the other day and my pen friend asked: "What is the purpose of spiritual practices?" So, I wrote back. This is what I told her. There are a few basic things most, if not all, authentic Read more [...]

BLESSED BE All the Mothers (and Others)

Posted on May 9, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

A PRAYER FOR MOTHERS BLESSED BE all the mothers of the world those who have died, those alive, those yet to come who brought, bring, and will bring life into the world who nurture, cherish, and support their children and model the maternal love Read more [...]

John Lewis, February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020, R.I.P.

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

“I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I Read more [...]

The Anointing

Posted on April 17, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

This was originally posted two years ago. For some reason it tugged on my sleeve today, got my attention, and asked if maybe it could get yours as well. I said okay. MANY YEARS AGO, when I was in my mid-twenties, I drove once a week from Princeton, Read more [...]

An Irish Blessing

Posted on March 17, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

The people of the stacked stones on my mother's side (Moran) loved to give blessings. Even the smallest incident merited a blessing. I know for sure the world is enriched whenever and wherever we enact blessing. Likewise, I know that the world is impoverished, Read more [...]

Hodie Christus Natus Est

Posted on December 25, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Christmas is a mystery, a message, and a mission. Wishing you a joy-filled Christmastide. Extravagant Blessings on all who find their way to The Sacred Braid and read THE ALMOND TREE. ~ Dan Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on September 17, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: It is ironic that often our breakthroughs into consciousness of the divine grow out of breakdowns in ordinary consciousness. Contacts with the divine may at the time feel like pure suffering, and I sometimes wonder if all suffering Read more [...]

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