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 [...]

THE DREAM TEAM: My Starting Five ~ 4. Compassion

Posted on June 10, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Suppose your spiritual life was a ball 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 its Read more [...]

“A voice is heard in Ramah*, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.” ~ Jeremiah 31:15

Posted on May 24, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

The 11 mass deadly school shootings that happened in the U.S. since Columbine * Virginia Tech – April 16, 2007 – 32 victims Sandy Hook Elementary School – Dec. 14, 2012 – 26 victims Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School – Feb. 14, 2018 Read more [...]

What, Goodpeople, Are We to Do? No. 2

Posted on March 28, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

PART 2 of 2 You have to develop your imagination to the point that permits sympathy to happen. You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours or the lives of your loved ones or the lives of your neighbors. You have to have at least enough Read more [...]

What, Goodpeople, Are We to Do? ~ No. 1

Posted on March 26, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

PART 1 of 2 Everything terrifying is, in its deepest being, something helpless that wants our help. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke What makes loneliness an anguish Is not that I have no one to share my burden, But this: I have only my own burden to bear. ~ Read more [...]

Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1931 – 2021) R.I.P.

Posted on December 26, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Some self-identifying Christians make a mockery of the word Christian and what it is meant to signify. Then you have someone like Archbishop Desmond Tutu and you catch a glimpse of the true Christ-life, one marked by humanity not perfection, humility Read more [...]

In the Bleak Midwinter, a Day to Re-Joy

Posted on December 12, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

. . . everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. ~ Isaiah 35:10b Today, the Third Sunday of Advent, is known as GAUDETE SUNDAY or Rejoice Sunday. Guadete in Latin means Read more [...]

A Feather Weightier than the Daily Bombs

Posted on July 10, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

I haven't posted much of late as I'm busy writing other things. But I came across this by accident and it moved me. So, I thought I'd pass it on, in case you haven't seen it. Sometimes we find the best things in really strange places. Like on American Read more [...]

We Must Always Take Sides: A Life-Line

Posted on May 3, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. ~ Read more [...]

Compassion — The Index of Our Humanity

Posted on March 5, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

To be a man or woman of compassion is to be present to those in pain in such a way that they feel safe enough, if they choose, to reveal their wound to us. Then after reverently receiving their storied-pain, we reverently reach out to touch them, at times Read more [...]

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