Out of the Depths — A Contemporary Lament

Posted on July 30, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

CAUTIONARY NOTE: The second part of this reflection deals with a traumatic incident (suicide, death, parental loss) and the aftermath. It is emotionally charged and some people may find it potentially retraumatizing. Be sure to use good judgment. When Read more [...]

The Coming of Your Bones

Posted on June 12, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Yesterday, I posted a reflection on compassion which I believe is a constitutive element of any authentic spirituality. I told a story about when I was in college and on the receiving end of a simple but profound act of compassionate presence. At 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 [...]

Of Kobe, Death, and the Two Mysteries

Posted on January 27, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

St. Margaret of Scotland Catholic Grade School perched on the side of a hill like a tam o shanter tilted on the head of a Scotsman on Dravis Avenue in Seattle, Washington. Mrs. Sullivan's classroom. Third grade. That's where I was on November Read more [...]

Rachel Held Evans R.I.P. ~ A Life-Line

Posted on May 6, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

SAD NEWS came out yesterday. Rachel Held Evans died early Saturday morning, May 4, 2019. She was 37 years old, happily married to husband Dan with whom she had two young sons. A gifted writer, she was a New York Times best-selling author, a sought Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The Beautiful Changes One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides The Queen Anne’s Lace lying like lilies On water; it glides So from the walker, it turns Dry grass to a lake, as the slightest shade of you Valleys Read more [...]

Good Friday: Daring to Let the Darkness Speak

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the Soul divine; Under every grief and pine Runs a joy with silken twines. From “Auguries of Innocence” ~ William Blake “But the thing is, you know you can’t have like a light Read more [...]

The Foolishness of Love

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

HOLY THURSDAY In her book O Pioneers! Willa Cather the Nebraskan novelist and chronicler of pioneering life in 20th century America has one of her characters say this: "There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves Read more [...]

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