Lectio Poetica No. 12 i thank You God for most

Posted on May 16, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

I first encountered E.E. Cummings' poetry during my freshman or sophomore year in college. I must have been exposed to Cummings in high school though I have no recollection of it. One of the few books I have on my shelf from back in the Paleolithic Read more [...]

Second Friday of Lent — Gideon’s Bible, My Unsung Hero, and the Practice of Hope as an Act of Resistance

Posted on March 10, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

One deed of an individual may decide the fate of the world. ~ Abraham Heschel I confess to a wee bit of eye-rolling in response to the GBS otherwise known as The Gideon's Bible Syndrome. Most of you who have spent time pilfering hotel bathrooms Read more [...]

We Are Tethered / Spirit is Free / What Spirit Is / We Can Be

Posted on October 23, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

One of the best pieces of advice that I can give to preachers is to preach as if YOU were sitting in the front pew. That simple counsel is meant to prevent preaching from getting preachy. It reminds the homilist that he or she is not up there preaching Read more [...]

Another Name for Grace—Gravy

Posted on October 20, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

As the tall story laid out horizontally goes, the prophet Abraham lived until the over-ripe age of one hundred and seventy-five. Heck, he didn't even start a family until he was ninety-nine (and they call Gretzky "The Great One." Ha!). We thought his Read more [...]

A Saying that Needs to be Laid to Rest

Posted on June 30, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

“There, but for the grace of God, go I.” This is a seemingly harmless and ubiquitous saying that turns up in the case of close calls and near miss tragedies, slipping off the tongue with the intention of crediting God for the prevention of the speaker's Read more [...]

THE DREAM TEAM: My Starting Five ~ 5. Joy

Posted on June 26, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Suppose your spiritual life was a basketball team. Who would be your starting five? CLICK on any of the five below. 1. LOVE 2. WONDER 3. GRATEFULNESS 4. COMPASSION 5. JOY There is only one real blasphemy: the refusal of joy. ~ Paul Rudnick Your Read more [...]

To Be Grateful ~ A Life-line

Posted on June 4, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Note ~ This passage originally was written as prose. It comes from Merton's book Thoughts in Solitude. It's a follow up to my reflection on June 2, 2022 on Gratefulness. Today's Life-Line is: To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in Read more [...]

THE DREAM TEAM: My Starting Five ~ 3. Gratefulness

Posted on June 2, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Suppose your spiritual life was a basketball team. Who would be your starting five? For all that has been—Thanks! To all that shall be—Yes! ~ Dag Hammarskjold “Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive Read more [...]

Brother Weeps on the Hardest Thing about the Spiritual Life

Posted on September 12, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

A young man once asked Brother Weeps, “Brother, what is the hardest thing about the spiritual life?” Brother Weeps thought for a moment and said, “First of all, let’s remember. There is only life. Just one life. The spiritual life is just 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 [...]

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