Life-Line

Posted on September 4, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

(LABOR DAY) Today's Life-Line is: Messenger by Mary Oliver My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird--- equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on July 3, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Contemplative life does not have to be seen as a special vocation reserved for some special souls only; it is open to all, and all are invited to enjoy it. You do not have to be in special circumstances to practice it because Read more [...]

Wonder and the Antiphonal Nature of Life

Posted on June 30, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

A Reflection in Three Parts Part Three I’m a soul in wonder. ~ Van Morrison In the place where wonder comes from, there I find you. ~ Bruce Cockburn Out of the mouth of babes. ~ Some former babe Every person, every couple, every family Read more [...]

Natural Happiness and Incarnations of Beauty

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

A Reflection in Three Parts Part Two Thinking of the power of awe reminds me of another one of my spiritual heroes, Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. A fallible and faithful friend Read more [...]

Awe and Intimations of the Divine

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

A Reflection in Three Parts Part One The heavens are telling the glory of God. ~ Ps. 19:1 The world is charged with the grandeur of God ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins Awe is an intuition for the dignity Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost Read more [...]

Being Human — Being Moved

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It is that simple. What you see is Read more [...]

What is Christmas?

Posted on December 25, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

It is the Yes of Mary to the Yes of God inviting the Yes of us to the Yes of God. It is the surrogacy of love giving birth to new possibilities. It is the magnificat of Mary’s hospitality undoing the homelessness of hope. It is the face of the Read more [...]

What Makes the Soul Great

Posted on November 24, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

For the past 18 months I have been listening to the now President-Elect repeatedly encourage his followers with the slogan "Let's Make America Great Again." All the while I have been acutely aware of how different his understanding of greatness is Read more [...]

To the Unseeable Animal

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

My daughter: I hope there’s an animal somewhere that nobody has ever seen. And I hope that nobody ever sees it. Being, whose flesh dissolves at our glance, knower of the secret sums and measures, you are always here, dwelling in the oldest sycamores, visiting Read more [...]

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Tag Archives: Wonder

Life-Line

Life-Line

Wonder and the Antiphonal Nature of Life

Natural Happiness and Incarnations of Beauty

Awe and Intimations of the Divine

Life-Line

Being Human — Being Moved

What is Christmas?

What Makes the Soul Great

To the Unseeable Animal