God Happens ~ A Life-Line

Posted on September 23, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

A Life-Line: [In Martin Buber's idea that "In the beginning was the relationship,] God is not spoken of as the supreme object, but as the mutual, significant, actively experienced relationship to life. God is not found as a precious stone or as blue Read more [...]

What You Are in Love with Affects Everything ~ A Life-Line

Posted on August 12, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Let me be clear about this final point, which hinges on faith’s grasp of a gratuitous, merciful, healing presence even amid the storms of life. For Christians of every color, solidarity with the stranger and the option of the 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 [...]

Note(s) to Self

Posted on July 6, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

and now I guess notes to you as well (for what they're worth). ~ TELL Story of grade schoolers writing to Dorothy Day asking her how she could see Christ in the destitute of NY City and her answer: It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is Read more [...]

The Way of the Mystic 2

Posted on July 4, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

The late Carmelite monk William McNamara describes the simple awe and perceptive appreciation that is at the core of the mystic way. He writes: To engage in the natural art of contemplation is to look long and steadily, leisurely and lovingly at Read more [...]

The Way of the Mystic 1

Posted on July 3, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

The mystic or contemplative is the man or woman who is intensely and intentionally alive to the aliveness of God. Mysticism or contemplation is “the wordless awareness of oneness with God beyond what thoughts can grasp or words can adequately convey.”[1] Read more [...]

On the Tide of God’s Mercy

Posted on June 28, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

I've been working on a chapter this week -- "Being the Beloved" -- which is based on a talk I've been giving for years. So I have been rereading favorite sections from my favorite book of Thomas Merton: New Seeds of Contemplation. The excerpt below Read more [...]

“You’re here! You’re Here!” ~ A Life-Line

Posted on May 20, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Recently, I just buried my mom and she was ninety-two years old. She was a sweetheart and never afraid of death. Once she said to me, "You know I've never done this before" like it was skydiving. You know, she was just kind of Read more [...]

i who have died am alive again today

Posted on April 21, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun’s birthday;this Read more [...]

The Prayer of a Heart Detached

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

What is the prayer of a heart grown calm in the peace of God? From such a purity one no longer prays as we are wont to pray. From such a purity one is free from asking any further gift of God, and is free also from asking that anything be taken Read more [...]

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