Only One Response Can Maintain Us

Posted on July 14, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Years ago the magazine Christian Century used to a have a one page feature that I enjoyed. For each issue an invited theologian was asked to choose a favorite poem which was displayed followed by a statement of maybe a hundred or hundred-fifty words Read more [...]

A Week with Mary Oliver — Day 1

Posted on January 20, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

In light of Mary Oliver's death last Thursday, let us honor her life and savor her words Coming to God: First Days Lord, what shall I do that I can’t quiet myself? Here is the bread, and here is the cup, and I can’t quiet myself. To Read more [...]

The More I Wonder ~ A Life-Line

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: I don’t know Who—or what—put the question, I don’t know when it was put. I don’t even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone—or Something—and from that Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today’s Life-Line is: The second half of life is a summons to the life of the spirit, namely, to ask, and answer for ourselves, uniquely, separately, what matters most. When we resist the many deaths asked of us, we resist the summons into larger Read more [...]

The Preeminent Question

Posted on May 1, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

To say that there is a God, to say that God is, is to say that “love is the source, center, and destiny of experience.”[i] To be made in the image of God means that we are gifted-into-being, that our very being, our being at all, our being here Read more [...]

Triduum Triptych – Panel 3

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

The short reflections for each of the three days of Triduum were published as one piece in Spirituality Mar/Apr 2012; No. 101 under the title “The Paschal Mystery.” Easter Easter comes. Into all of creation groaning for God’s salvation, Easter Read more [...]

Where Are You?

Posted on December 27, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

"If you hallow this life you meet the living God " ~ Martin Buber In 1961, Senior Lieutenant Yuri Gagarin, the Russian Cosmonaut who was the first person to orbit earth, dropped the already frigid temperature of the Cold War era even further when Read more [...]

The Silence in the Cave of the Heart

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

“Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now?” ~Verizon television commercial~ Being silent is not introversion. Nor is it simply a disposition or demeanor. It is not so much how we behave as how we have our being. It is the completely open and actively Read more [...]

Good Friday: Back to the Future

Posted on April 2, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

GOOD FRIDAY If there is any danger during the Triduum (three days) it is merely the accentuated danger Christians face any other time of their lives: to reduce faith to an exercise of “remember when." The risk is to reduce the life of faith to nothing Read more [...]

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Only One Response Can Maintain Us

A Week with Mary Oliver — Day 1

The More I Wonder ~ A Life-Line

Life-Line

Life-Line

The Preeminent Question

Triduum Triptych – Panel 3

Where Are You?

The Silence in the Cave of the Heart

Good Friday: Back to the Future