Musica Memento 12 ~ Walk and Talk Like Angels

Posted on April 4, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

Music is the GPS of memory. It can take us back immediately to a place, relationship, or experience—painful, exhilarating, transformative—to a moment, month, or year of our lives. Toni Child's UNION brings me back to 1988, to her song "Walk and Talk Read more [...]

The Coming of Christmas and the Birth of the Rebel Jesus

Posted on December 22, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

rebel [noun, adjective reb-uhl; verb ri-bel ] a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of their country. Except in Jesus' case, it was adamantly an insurrection without arms. Read more [...]

Let’s Hear It for All the Moms Out There

Posted on May 14, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.” . . . Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates. ~ Proverbs Read more [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

How Did Christ Meditate? ~ A Life-Line

Posted on July 30, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Once a student asked the 20th-century Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba (known to his followers as Maharaj-ji) how to meditate, and Maharaj-ji replied, “Meditate the way Christ meditated.” There was silence and pondering. Read more [...]

The Geometry of the Christ-Life

Posted on July 5, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Imagine a circle marked out on the ground. Suppose that this circle is the world and that the center of the circle is God. Leading from the edge to the center are a number of lines, representing ways of life. In their desire to draw near to God, the saints Read more [...]

Brother Weeps and the Do-Si-Do

Posted on July 3, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Advice Someone dancing inside us learned only a few steps: the "Do-Your-Work" in 4/4 time. the "What-Do-You-Expect" waltz. He hasn't noticed yet the woman standing away from the lamp, the one with dark eyes who knows the rhumba and strange 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 [...]

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 [...]

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