Easter Sunday– for Joy!

Posted on April 16, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

I thank you God for most this amazing 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 Read more [...]

Being Human — Being Moved

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It is that simple. What you see is Read more [...]

What Makes the Soul Great

Posted on November 24, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

For the past 18 months I have been listening to the now President-Elect repeatedly encourage his followers with the slogan "Let's Make America Great Again." All the while I have been acutely aware of how different his understanding of greatness is Read more [...]

Asking Permission to “Be” Once Again

Posted on May 28, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

I have been reading Matthew Fox’s new book A Way to God: Thomas Merton’s Creation Spirituality Journey courtesy of a long-time member of The Human & the Holy spiritual formation community. Merton, one of the most important spiritual writers Read more [...]

It Might Have Been Otherwise

Posted on May 27, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

This morning I awoke to birds outside my window chanting Lauds. They had already had their caffeine allotment for the day as it was a bit fast. Their song was so full of excitement and delight that my still-stuck-shut eyes smiled. It made me think of Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise — Anamnesis

Posted on May 12, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Anamnesis [an-am-nee-sis] One of my favorite words is a Greek term. It is an important theological word used especially by Catholic Christians in reference to the Eucharist. But it seems to me that anamnesis might be a reconciling word where Christians Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: 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 Read more [...]

Harper Lee R.I.P.

Posted on February 20, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

As my children know, I am a sucker for “Clickbait” on web portal Homepages, especially the kind whose headlines have the word “favorite” in them: Five Favorite Foods of Thin People, Favorite Places to Retire, Favorite Wildflower Hikes, All-Time Read more [...]

Is it Mist or a Must?

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

Who is the mystic? The mystic is the person who loves being alive and whose heart breaks open wide with awe and gratefulness to the source and giver of that love and life. ~ djm We live in a time when religious divisiveness promulgated by self-righteous, Read more [...]

Gift

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

Here's a poem for Epiphany-- Gift A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I knew no one worth my envying him. Whatever Read more [...]

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