Asking Permission to “Be” Once Again

Posted on May 28, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

I have been reading Matthew Fox’s new book A Way to God: Thomas Merton’s Creation Spirituality Journey courtesy of a long-time member of The Human & the Holy spiritual formation community. Merton, one of the most important spiritual writers Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today’s Life-Line is: To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments. Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. It is all we can Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise — Effulgence

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Effulgence [ih-fuhl-juh ns] This week’s word is effulgence. Literally it means a shining forth and refers to a brilliant radiance. One of the reasons I was first drawn to the writings of Abraham Heschel was because of the sheer beauty of the language. Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise — Wonder

Posted on January 14, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Wonder [wuhn-der] This week our word is WONDER. This year in The Human & the Holy community (H&H), we are eavesdropping on and then joining in an imagined conversation between four wise guides. One of those sages is Rabbi Abraham Joshua Read more [...]

From Allusion to Awe

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme. ~ Abraham Heschel Rabbi Heschel points out there are three ways we may respond to the Read more [...]

Is it Mist or a Must?

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

Who is the mystic? The mystic is the person who loves being alive and whose heart breaks open wide with awe and gratefulness to the source and giver of that love and life. ~ djm We live in a time when religious divisiveness promulgated by self-righteous, Read more [...]

Listening Loudly: The Doorway to Delight

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

◊ Listening to the Excitement (continued) If things created are so full of loveliness, how resplendent with beauty must be the One who made them! ~ St. Anthony of Padua If we leave our assumptions and measuring sticks for what is meaningful behind, Read more [...]

Listening to the Excitement

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

For lack of attention, a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day. ~ Evelyn Underhill When I was a young boy growing up in Seattle, nothing thrilled my brothers, sisters and me more than the possibility each winter of snow and, heavens willing, Read more [...]

Bringing Our Blooming Gift

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

Tuesday of the 1st Week of Lent, Year B (Isaiah 55:10-11; Matthew 6:7-15) Yesterday I failed to mention that the gospel that was selected to accompany the reading from Leviticus 19 on being holy was the famous but frequently side-stepped passage from Read more [...]

Prayer as Beholding

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Daniel J. Miller

So we (H&H) make the transition from a month of focusing on practicing silence and simplicity to a month of practicing prayer. This transition should not be the least bit jarring as silence and simplicity are intimately related and indispensable to Read more [...]

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