Christmas Poem

Posted on December 27, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Clarification Concerning my reflection on December 23 regarding hope, allow me to make a clarification. In my attempt to clarify what hope is and is not, I personified it, but as I reread the piece it seemed unclear and open to misinterpretation. I Read more [...]

Christmas Eve: Two Poems

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Making the House Ready for the Lord Dear Lord, I have swept and I have washed but still nothing is as shining as it should be for you. Under the sink, for example, is an uproar of mice—it is the season of their many children. What shall I Read more [...]

Poetry and Faith as Participative Acts

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Lest those of us who are Catholic forget, the single greatest liturgical change that was set in motion at the Second Vatican Council, was not that the language of the Mass changed from Latin to the vernacular of the people gathered, nor that Monsignor Read more [...]

Of Marcia, Sunlight, and the Duty of Pleasure

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

One of the reasons that I have drawn our attention thus far to the sheer enjoyment that comes from the playfulness, refreshment, or voltage of language is because in addition to the ability to break us open poetry has the capacity to retrieve for us the Read more [...]

Holiness: Love in Action

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Holiness as Love in Action What saints risk the most, simply stated but not so simply lived, is to be enlivened by love – the giving and receiving of it. In an anthology of mystical writings from various world religions, Andrew Harvey titled each chapter Read more [...]

Compass for the Sacred Journey

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

My hope is to help us see how engaging poetry is a viable and enlivening spiritual practice.

In addition to the icon or window, I want to offer the image of the compass as a way of explaining the relationship between poetry and the spiritual life since, Read more [...]

Poetry for the Sacred Journey

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

I want to follow up on our Sunday gathering with a few reflections, some poems, some encouragement, and some invitations. First, I continue to be astonished, moved, and blessed by the quality of persons who find their way to H&H either again and Read more [...]

Two Poems for Easter

Posted on April 4, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Hi Everyone: I am enclosing two poems, one introduced to me by my brother Kevin by Jim Harrison, and the other the Wendell Berry poem that ends with the provocative two word imperative that is our theme for this year in The Human & the Holy. Each Read more [...]

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