About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

What I Am Living For – A Life-Line

Posted on February 1, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from fully living for the thing I want to live Read more [...]

Help Us to See

Posted on January 30, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Days pass and the years vanish and we walk sightless among miracles. [You] fill our eyes with seeing and our minds with knowing. Let there be moments when your Presence, like lightning, illumines the darkness in which we walk. Help us to see, wherever Read more [...]

Brother Weeps on Holiness

Posted on January 24, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Brother Weeps said, “The saints are not those who struggle the hardest nor those who struggle the least, but those who surrender the most. There is still great misunderstanding among most people about what it means to be holy. Too often its depictions Read more [...]

Some People Are Just So Hard to Live With

Posted on January 19, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

There once was a monastery that was very strict. Following a vow of silence, no one was allowed to speak at all. But there was one exception to this rule. Every ten years, the monks were permitted to speak just two words. After spending his first ten Read more [...]

A Day for National Moral Reckoning

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends. ~ John 15:3 "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever Read more [...]

I Am a Traveler, too. And You?

Posted on January 17, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

What would it mean if we led with compassion? This is what I'm chewing on this weekend. By led I'm not referring to showing the way, guiding by example or escorting others. I'm talking about how we present ourselves, how we step out each morning, encounter Read more [...]

How Disturbing — Conscionably Heaping Tragedy Upon Tragedy

Posted on January 14, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Lisa Montgomery was murdered in the name of American citizens a day and a half ago for a horrendous murder she committed in 2004. An eye for an eye they say. She was a very damaged and sick individual whose long-term debilitating mental illness went undiagnosed Read more [...]

This is Not a Poem

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

This is not a poem. This is Rachel weeping, wailing for her children, grinding her teeth, biting her tongue. Some are calling for reconciliation, some for healing, others for moving on, but when the damage done is to property but more than property, to Read more [...]

Weeping in the _? Land

Posted on January 6, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Gospel music always holds the blessed tension, joy & sorrow, suffering & rejoicing, weeping & laughing. To be part of the solution & not part of the problem involves playing our small but essential part to ensure what has never been Read more [...]

Reverence: An Offering of Love – Part 4/4

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

~ continued from yesterday (since this is written in four installments and as a conversation, you may want to hit “previous” and read the preceding parts or minimally read the last paragraph or two from the previous installment to get the context Read more [...]

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