A Word About God ~ A Life-Line

Posted on July 11, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word about God. If I spent enough time with the tiniest creature —even a caterpillar—I would never have to prepare a sermon. So full of Read more [...]

THE DREAM TEAM: My Starting Five ~ 4. Compassion

Posted on June 10, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Suppose your spiritual life was a basketball team. Who would be your starting five? Remember this: All suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered it first. ~ Meister Eckhart The love of our neighbor in all Read more [...]

Lectio Poetica No. 11 When I Was the Forest

Posted on July 14, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

For a write-up on Lectio Poetica click HERE. When I Was the Forest When I was the stream, when I was the forest, when I was still the field, when I was every hoof, foot, fin and wing, when I was the sky itself, no one ever asked me Read more [...]

Nature’s Power to Mirror

Posted on March 27, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

We must first honor and cherish all creation as an expression or mirror of the Divine Beauty. "This, then, is salvation, when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise the beautiful providence of their Creator," wrote Meister Eckhart. ~ Read more [...]

The Prayer of a Heart Detached

Posted on April 4, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

What is the prayer of a heart grown calm in the peace of God? From such a purity one no longer prays as we are wont to pray. From such a purity one is free from asking any further gift of God, and is free also from asking that anything be taken Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Truly! Truly! By God! By God! Be as sure of it as you are that God lives: at the least good deed done here in this world, the least bit of good will, the least good desire, all the saints in heaven and on earth rejoice, and together Read more [...]

Incarnation as Compassionate Solidarity

Posted on December 17, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

From Advent 2009: The gospel of God is not so much that God comes to save us but that God saves us by coming to us, by coming and being with us as one of us. God’s saving presence is manifested and accomplished not by the Divine waving a magic celestial Read more [...]

The Book that is My Life

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

. . . continued from previous post Frederick Buechner encourages us to listen to our lives. Master storyteller, he knows the narrative quality of life, that we are not merely storytellers but storied-beings. So it behooves us (how often do I get to 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 [...]

Thanksgiving Eve

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

"Thanking is a true understanding of who we really are." ~ Julian of Norwich "It seems to me in the light of the Divine Goodness . . . that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins . . . . For it is a forgetting of the graces, benefits, and blessings Read more [...]

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