The Invitations of Epiphany

Posted on January 7, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

It seems almost constitutionally impossible to be Irish and not be a lover of words and with one side of the family littered with Morans and Linehans, it is understandable that I am and always have been a logophile. When my children were old enough Read more [...]

Pensées – More on Hope

Posted on December 31, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

What is hope? It is a presentiment that imagination is more real And reality less real than it looks. ~ Rubem Alves So much is in the bud. ~ Denise Levertov As stated in my reflection “Pensées – Advent Pondering 2,” Advent is a season Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on December 31, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

The Last Life-Line of 2018 is: Kindness and truth shall meet, justice and peace shall kiss. Truth shall spring out of the earth, and justice shall look down from heaven. ~ Psalm 85: 11-12 Read more [...]

The Work of Christmas Begins – (Again)

Posted on December 30, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

I posted Howard Thurman's famous poem "The Work of Christmas" in 2014 and 2016. Keeping with my every other year pattern, I post it yet again. It would be worth your time to listen to Dan Forest's beautiful choral arrangement. The words of the text are Read more [...]

Become Midwives of Love

Posted on December 28, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

In Jesus, God becomes the incarnation of love so that we who are the beneficiaries of this divine extravagance might learn to live it and in living love might become midwives who help bring it forth from whomever and wherever life longs to be Read more [...]

Hodie Christus Natus Est

Posted on December 25, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Christmas is a mystery, a message, and a mission. Wishing you a joy-filled Christmastide. Extravagant Blessings on all who find their way to The Sacred Braid and read THE ALMOND TREE. ~ Dan Read more [...]

Where Christ Is Present in This World

Posted on December 25, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited. But because he cannot be at home in it, because he is out of place in it, and yet he must be in it, His place is with the others Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on December 24, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Christ Climbed Down Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this year and ran away to where there were no rootless Christmas trees hung with candycanes and breakable stars Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this year Read more [...]

Pensées — Advent Pondering 2

Posted on December 21, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

All religious traditions have at least this in common: the articulated perception of a gap between what is and what should be; between reality as actuality and reality as an ideal. ~ Lawrence Cunningham HOPEFULNESS When I was young, from time to time Read more [...]

Pensées — Advent Pondering 1

Posted on December 21, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

As you know, Advent literally means “coming toward” (ad- toward + venire- to come) Traditionally, it is the season when we pay special attention to the coming towardness of God, the divine presence in our midst. First, by entering again into the Read more [...]