Hidden Treasure & Reeling Joy

Posted on February 11, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. ~ Mt. 13:44 Blessed are the eyes that see what you see. For I say to you, many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear Read more [...]

The Mystery of Divine Love ~ A Life-Line

Posted on August 6, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: There is suffering in human life and we do not know why it should be. Some we can see as the result of the gift of human freedom. Some we can see as the result of the forces of nature. Some is utterly inscrutable, with an apparent Read more [...]

Become Midwives of Love

Posted on December 28, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

In Jesus, God becomes the incarnation of love so that we who are the beneficiaries of this divine extravagance might learn to live it and in living love might become midwives who help bring it forth from whomever and wherever life longs to be Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on May 8, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: What the wise ones know--- the friends of God, the artisans of life, the apprentices of love--- is NOT TO WAIT for tragedy or trauma to wake them up to the incomprehensible surprise of being, to the dizzying resplendence of Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise — Extravagant

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Extravagant [ik-strav-uh-guh nt] After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions Read more [...]

God — The Beloved Community

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

This past Sunday was the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity. Before we get too far removed from it, I’d like to offer a few reflections on this central mystery of our faith. When it comes to the Trinitarian nature of God, some Christians grew up with Read more [...]

Resurrection: The Radical Imperative

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

The consumerist society in which we live has successfully commercialized religious holidays. This is well known, easily observed, and not a little ink has been spilled reminding us of it. Easter is no exception. And yet, the blame game where Christians Read more [...]

The Madness of March, the Audacity of April

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Daniel J. Miller

"There is no resurrection that is not the resurrection of love" ~ Dan Miller The Madness of March, the Audacity of April In the culture, at least the American sporting culture, these past two or three weeks and this week especially are considered Read more [...]

How’s Your Love Life?

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Daniel J. Miller

Ash Wednesday Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD, your God, For God is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and relenting in punishment Read more [...]

Stillness: The Door to Divine Love

Posted on November 6, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

"Consider all the innumerable things that can go wrong in our lives. Then reflect, what can undo these catastrophes? What can heal the inevitable wounds? In every case the answer is “the power of love”. Love it is that heals, that makes new, that Read more [...]

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