WHEN Will We Ever Learn? A Lament for When Mothers Are Sending Their Children to School with Their Blood Type Pinned to Their Sweaters

Posted on March 20, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

WHEN will we learn the lesson Chief Sealth taught that the earth does not belong to us but we belong to the earth? Kyrie eleison WHEN will we come to know that we are a part of the earth not apart from the earth and understand that—as the Read more [...]

Lectio Poetica No. 11 When I Was the Forest

Posted on July 14, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

For a write-up on Lectio Poetica click HERE. When I Was the Forest When I was the stream, when I was the forest, when I was still the field, when I was every hoof, foot, fin and wing, when I was the sky itself, no one ever asked me Read more [...]

Hangin’ with Hafiz

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky. ~ Hafiz ♣ GOODPEOPLE ♣ ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SPIRITUAL DIRECTION ONLINE? Would Read more [...]

Look, Listen: The Teachers Are All Around Us

Posted on March 9, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: But now ask the animals to teach you, the birds of the air to tell you; Or speak to the earth to instruct you, and the fish of the sea to inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand Read more [...]

All Creation is Waiting

Posted on December 3, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

ADVENT is a Time of Waiting and all creation, not merely humans, wait and yearn for the day when shalom and shalem embrace and together become the stillness within the song and the song within the stillness that bring healing and jubilation at last to Read more [...]

Lectio Poetica No. 7 ~ Earth Day Poem

Posted on April 22, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. ~ Wendell Berry There are three aspects of nature which command humankind's attention: power, loveliness, grandeur. Power we exploit, loveliness we enjoy, grandeur Read more [...]

The Saints and Poets, Maybe

Posted on November 4, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

A Life-Line: from ACT III (Graveyard Scene) EMILY: In a loud voice to the stage manager. I can't. I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. She breaks down sobbing, The lights dim on the left half of the Read more [...]

Remember

Posted on October 10, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

"If we approach nature and the environment without . . . openness to awe and wonder, if we no longer speak the language of fraternity and beauty in our relationship with the world, our attitude will be that of masters, consumers, ruthless exploiters, Read more [...]

For the Sake of Future Generations ~ A Life-Line

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is an excerpt from: ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS . . . ON THE THEME: ENERGY TRANSITION AND CARE OF OUR COMMON HOUSE Friday, June 14, 2019 In the face of a climatic emergency, we must take appropriate measures, in order Read more [...]

Ring the Bells for All of Us

Posted on June 4, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Imagine a river. Imagine one river with interlaced channels. Like a braided river whose source, flow, and destination is Divine Love, the sacred work of becoming human and holy involves four interwoven movements that make up, what I call, The Read more [...]

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