THE DREAM TEAM: My Starting Five ~ 1. Love

Posted on May 29, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Suppose your spiritual life was a basketball team. Who would be your starting five? Let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. ~ 1 John 3:18 I really only love God as much as I love the person I love least. ~ Dorothy Day Sports enthusiasts Read more [...]

Choosing to Sow Seeds of Love

Posted on February 19, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life Line is: Christian spirituality involves the conscious, intentional, immediate, and ongoing choice to incarnate love in the face of our own contingency and certain, imminent death. In other words, in the full awareness of the fragility Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love. ~ St. John of the Cross ~ Sometimes it seems so obvious, so basic, so simple, that I feel indicted. ~ djm Artwork: "Kindness Blossom," by Frederica Muraro Read more [...]

If You Want — A Poem for Christmas Eve

Posted on December 24, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

If you want the Virgin will come walking down the road pregnant with the holy, and say, “I need shelter for the night, please take me inside your heart, my time is so close.” Then, Read more [...]

Embracing Life, Engaging Death: Part VI

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

“How should we live in a way which is compatible with our being a likeness of God?” ~ Abraham Joshau Heschel “Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love.” ~ John of the Cross “Tell me how much you know of the sufferings Read more [...]

There is No Such Thing as Dead Silence

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

I am interested in the fullest meaning of being silent. Not so much doing silence, but risking being undone by it. Sitting still in it, yes of course,. But if I’m honest also braving silence or wrestling with it until sweaty and exhausted I collapse Read more [...]

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