Hi Q

Posted on March 4, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

The pearl of great price is hidden everywhere— too simple to see ~ djm Spiritual Practice: Look, Notice, Behold, Appreciate, Give Thanks, Repeat ♣ ♣ ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SPIRITUAL DIRECTION ONLINE? Would you benefit from having a trustworthy Read more [...]

Show Me Something Unbeautiful ~ A Life-Line

Posted on December 29, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: It is dawn. The sun is conquering the sky and my grandmother and I are heaving prayers at the horizon. “Show me something unbeautiful,” she says, “and I will show you the veil over your eyes and take it away. And Read more [...]

All Saints Day

Posted on November 1, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

It was because the saints were absorbed in God that they were truly capable of seeing and appreciating created things and it was because they loved [God] alone that they alone loved everybody. ~ Thomas Merton Read more [...]

Out of Style ~ The Mystic as Misfit

Posted on October 14, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

A MYSTIC is someone who has a habit of falling in love with life however it manifests itself—whether in its inelegant or elegant simplicity, entangled intricacy, or rapturous ecstasy, and despite its inexplicable but assured agonies. The mystic Read more [...]

The Measure of Our Misery ~ A Life-Line

Posted on October 7, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The measure of our misery is that we no longer expect to see miracles. ~ Robert Romanyshyn, (author and scholar in depth psychology) It is worth noting that Romanyshyn is not talking about supernatural miracles. He's talking Read more [...]

Absolute Attention is Prayer

Posted on March 17, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Simone Weil says, “Absolute attention is prayer.” And the more I have thought about this over the years, the truer it is for me. I have used the sentence often in talking about poetry to students, to suggest that if one Read more [...]

Help Us to See

Posted on January 30, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Days pass and the years vanish and we walk sightless among miracles. [You] fill our eyes with seeing and our minds with knowing. Let there be moments when your Presence, like lightning, illumines the darkness in which we walk. Help us to see, wherever Read more [...]

Reverence: An Offering of Love – Part 2/4

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

~ continued from yesterday (since this is written as a conversation, you may want to hit "previous" and read the last paragraph or two) When we walk on the earth with reverence, beauty will decide to trust us. ~ John O'Donohue Authentic faith leads Read more [...]

Lectio Poetica No. 9

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Miracles ~Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along Read more [...]

Poem 6 for the Season of Creation*

Posted on September 24, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

LECTIO POETICA If you have not read the explanation for Lectio Poetica, I encourage you to read it here before reading Oliver’s poem below. SNOW GEESE Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last! What a task to ask of anything, or anyone, yet Read more [...]

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