Listening Loudly: The Doorway to Delight

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

◊ Listening to the Excitement (continued) If things created are so full of loveliness, how resplendent with beauty must be the One who made them! ~ St. Anthony of Padua If we leave our assumptions and measuring sticks for what is meaningful behind, Read more [...]

Listening to Boredom

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness . . . Frederick Buechner mentions four types of experience, four passageways through which we can enter Read more [...]

The Book that is My Life

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

. . . continued from previous post Frederick Buechner encourages us to listen to our lives. Master storyteller, he knows the narrative quality of life, that we are not merely storytellers but storied-beings. So it behooves us (how often do I get to Read more [...]

Becoming Whole

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments Read more [...]

Reading Poetry as an Imaginal Act

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

~ 2010-2011 Theme: Poetry for the Sacred Journey ~ One of the most important books that I have read over the years is a thin book (127 pages) by scripture scholar Walter Brueggemann called The Prophetic Imagination. A succinct, eloquent, and powerful Read more [...]

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Tag Archives: Frederick Buechner

Listening Loudly: The Doorway to Delight

Listening to Boredom

The Book that is My Life

Becoming Whole

Reading Poetry as an Imaginal Act