Love that Carries Suffering that Carries Love

Posted on March 23, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

NOTE: Today’s reflection is an excerpt from a November 4, 2014 post where it was titled “Embracing Life, Engaging Death, Part VI.” “How should we live in a way which is compatible with our being a likeness of God?” ~ Abraham Joshau Heschel “Where Read more [...]

Passion

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

This week I will dip into the Archives and offer a reflection each day leading up to Easter. Today and tomorrow’s reflections are from 2014 when the theme for The Human & the Holy spiritual formation community (H&H) that I lead was “Embracing Read more [...]

End of Year Reflections

Posted on May 30, 2015 by Daniel J. Miller

Note: I have decided to upload this [edited and abridged] end-of-the-year letter to the H&H community in the hopes that it might have something of value to those outside this gathered community. Our focus for the year was "Embracing Life, Engaging Read more [...]

Taking Stock

Posted on February 28, 2015 by Daniel J. Miller

Saturday, The First Week of Lent, YEAR B I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not Read more [...]

Embracing Life, Engaging Death: Part VI

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

“How should we live in a way which is compatible with our being a likeness of God?” ~ Abraham Joshau Heschel “Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love.” ~ John of the Cross “Tell me how much you know of the sufferings Read more [...]

Embracing Life, Engaging Death: Part V

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

passion [pash-uh n] Strong amorous feeling or desire; love; ardor. The sufferings of Christ from the Last Supper to his death on the cross. The Passionate Life The wise ones from all wisdom traditions know that authentic spirituality Read more [...]

Embracing Life, Engaging Death: Part IV

Posted on November 2, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

Religion Right and Religion Lite If we are honest, we must admit that the blessed tension is not only counter-cultural to what is promoted, celebrated, and rewarded in 21st century American society, but also to the modus operandi of what frequently Read more [...]

Embracing Life, Engaging Death: Part III

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

“. . . beyond all evil is the compassion of God.” ~ Abraham Heschel “Granted, darkness, chaos, death and hell do appear, but not for a moment are they allowed to prevail …. What occurs in Mozart is rather a glorious upsetting of the balance, Read more [...]

Engaging Life, Embracing Death: Part II

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

“Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too Read more [...]

Embracing Life, Engaging Death: Part I

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

There is a task, a law, and a way: The task is redemption, The law, to do justice, to love mercy, and the way is the secret of being human and holy. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity Read more [...]

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