Musica Memento 10 ~ Yearning for Our Home

Posted on December 9, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Yearning is perhaps best typed in italics because its modus operandi involves leaning into life. All genuine earthly yearnings are expressions of the one deep longing for the One Intimacy from which we come and in which we experience peace, taste Read more [...]

Merry Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Friends of the Sacred Braid and readers of THE ALMOND TREE, thank you for being a blessing to me through your continued support, comments, companionship, encouragement, and generosity. May the star of wonder catch your eye, hold your attention, Read more [...]

Christmas Poem for 2019

Posted on December 24, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

The very word Christ has that thin, crisp sound so suggestive of frost and snow and the small sheets of ice that crack and splinter under our feet, even as the Host is broken in the priest’s fingers. ~ R. S. Thomas Song I Read more [...]

Talking Out Loud to Myself in the Humble Hope that Someone Might Overhear (2)

Posted on December 5, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

AND INSTEAD OF HAVING ME COMMITTED WILL COMMITTHEMSELVES TO DIVING DEEPER INTO THE MYSTERY ~ An Inner View Disguised as an Interview ~ No. 2. . . continued from December 3, 2019 MYSELF: I’d like to pick up where we left off. Read more [...]

Talking Out Loud to Myself in the Humble Hope that Someone Might Overhear (1)

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

AND INSTEAD OF HAVING ME COMMITTED WILL COMMITTHEMSELVES TO DIVING DEEPER INTO THE MYSTERY ~ An Inner View Disguised as an Interview ~ No. 1 MYSELF: Well , first, thank you for sitting down with me.DAN: Of course, my pleasure. Read more [...]

First Sunday of Advent

Posted on December 1, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

As we enter into the season of Advent, the four week run up to its culmination in “The Nativity of the Lord” and the Christmas mystery, we are once again made mindful not merely of the motif of darkness and light, but more so of the motif of Read more [...]

The Work of Christmas Begins – (Again)

Posted on December 30, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

I posted Howard Thurman's famous poem "The Work of Christmas" in 2014 and 2016. Keeping with my every other year pattern, I post it yet again. It would be worth your time to listen to Dan Forest's beautiful choral arrangement. The words of the text are 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 [...]

Where Christ Is Present in This World

Posted on December 25, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Into this world, this demented inn
in which there is absolutely no room for him at all,
Christ comes uninvited.

But because he cannot be at home in it,
because he is out of place in it,
and yet he must be in it,
His place is with the others Read more [...]

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