ADVENT—ure No. 2 (2022)

Posted on December 1, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Be still and know that I am God. ~ Psalm 46:10 Advent: the time to listen for footsteps – you can’t hear footsteps when you’re running yourself. ~ Bill McKibben It is the nature of each and all metaphors to work and not work. When we said Read more [...]

A Prayer of the Heart

Posted on November 18, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

You, for whom we have so many names, You, for whom no name will do, help us learn to live into the name that you have stitched on the inside of our heart, the name that only you know and whisper to us like a lover in the night. Open the ears Read more [...]

Do as the Flowers Do

Posted on September 29, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

All of us, gazing with unveiled face on the glory of the Holy One, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Holy One who is the Spirit. 2 Cor. 3:18 Years ago, when I worked at The Center for Spiritual Development Read more [...]

Brother Weeps Offers An Aside

Posted on July 8, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Sometimes, the most memorable—if not the most important—thing a teacher has to teach us comes by way of a temporary departure from their main theme, an aside, some off-the-cough comment, or a brief digression before returning to their original topic. Read more [...]

It All Depends on What We Do with the Unless

Posted on January 1, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

I've never been much invested in New Year's Eve, New Year's Day (except for the years when I watched the Bowl games), or the practice of making New Year's resolutions. I've synced my psyche these last four-plus decades more to the liturgical calendar Read more [...]

Trust Me, You Are

Posted on March 11, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

In the mythic prelapsarian world there was no need for fig leaves other than by figs. There was no such thing as an unforgiving mirror but only the pure, exalting reflection off the still waters of Paradise Pond. The paradisaical lexicon of human Read more [...]

Only Our Heart

Posted on February 14, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. ~ Blaise Pascal Our eyes see, but only our heart looks through things to their meaning. Our nose registers scents, but only our heart will track like a hound its ethereal quarry. Our tongue Read more [...]

Gandhi on Prayer ~ A Life-Line

Posted on February 11, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ~ Mahatma Gandhi BE GOOD MEDICINE ~ Dan Read more [...]

More Merton — How to Know God

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

"You don't go looking for an object called God." You stop trying to reach God by educating your intellect. But you do try to awaken your heart. So, therefore, the great study of the monk* is to have an awakened heart. And, of course, you have to Read more [...]

Sometimes All We Can Do Is Bow

Posted on August 27, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

There is nothing more whole than a broken heart. ~ Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk Mother Teresa, the Albanian nun who took into her heart and home the destitute and dying in Calcutta, popularized for many Christians the Indian greeting “Namaste” Read more [...]

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