Musica Memento 13 ~ Keeping Quiet

Posted on October 19, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

In my teaching on Christian spirituality, spiritual formation, and spiritual guidance over the years, I have used a lot of poetry and music. One of my go-to poets has been the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. (1904 - 1973) My favorites are his love poems 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 [...]

The Tragedy of Us and Them — A Lamentation

Posted on November 7, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

Some are guilty, all are responsible. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel While men called adults keep playing the same old demented games where no one ever wins both sides always lose each side justifying violence so that violence and anguish and death and trauma Read more [...]

Musica Memento 10 ~ Yearning for Our Home

Posted on December 9, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Yearning is perhaps best typed in italics because its modus operandi involves leaning into life. All genuine earthly yearnings are expressions of the one deep longing for the One Intimacy from which we come and in which we experience peace, taste Read more [...]

All Creation is Waiting

Posted on December 3, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

ADVENT is a Time of Waiting and all creation, not merely humans, wait and yearn for the day when shalom and shalem embrace and together become the stillness within the song and the song within the stillness that bring healing and jubilation at last to Read more [...]

John Lewis, February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020, R.I.P.

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

“I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I Read more [...]

Lectio Poetica No. 6

Posted on April 18, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Wendell Berry's poem "The Peace of Wild Things" seems timely. For those of you who would like to use Berry's poem for prayerful reflection, I invite you first to read the description of Lectio Poetica HERE. The Peace of Wild Things When despair Read more [...]

Brother Weeps Teaches How to Argue

Posted on February 22, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

“Brother Weeps, someone told us that you know a holy way to argue. Is this true?” asked a novice. The brother chuckled. “I suppose it is, yes," he said. "Would you teach us?" "I learned it from listening to my granda and his life-long Read more [...]

First Sunday of Advent

Posted on December 1, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

As we enter into the season of Advent, the four week run up to its culmination in “The Nativity of the Lord” and the Christmas mystery, we are once again made mindful not merely of the motif of darkness and light, but more so of the motif of Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 8, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is
a poem by the late American poet Stanley Kunitz (1905 - 2006). Before reading "The Long Boat" you might want to read the short explanation of Lectio Poetica (<-- Click on the blue) and use the poem for prayerful reflection.
The Read more [...]

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