About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

Brother Weeps Speaks on Silence

Posted on January 14, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

"Brother Weeps, what happens when you pray and all you hear back is silence?" asked a young woman, implying perhaps that prayer doesn't work or that God isn't there or that she must be doing something wrong. "Well, then it's time you learn the Read more [...]

A Poem for Sunday

Posted on January 12, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Golden Hill by Bridgette Guerzon Mills Wringing Out My Clothes Such love doesthe sky now pourthat whenever I stand in a field, I have to wring out the lightwhen I gethome. ~ Saint Francis of Assisi from Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Read more [...]

Enlarge Our Hearts

Posted on January 11, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

A Life-Line to Take Hold of: We face the situation that there is nothing we can do for people except to love them. . . . We continue in our fourteenth year of feeding our brother and clothing him and sheltering him and the more we do it the Read more [...]

When Will We Ever Learn?

Posted on January 9, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

They shall beat their swords into plowsharesand their spears into pruning hooks;One nation shall not raise the sword against another,nor shall they train for war again. ~ Is. 2:4b; Micah 4:3 In this world of continuous wars and rumors of war, Read more [...]

Brother Weeps Gives a Word

Posted on January 8, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

“Brother Weeps, give us a word your teacher gave you,” asked the novice. “Oh. I don’t know,” said Brother Weeps.“But you must remember some teaching of his,” said the young inquirer.“I don’t know,” said Brother Weeps.“Well, Read more [...]

On the Porch of Mystery

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

A Life-Line for the week after the Feast of Epiphany (An Excerpt) Having had the privilege, as a spiritual director, of catching and holding the stories of so many extraordinarily ordinary and ordinarily extraordinary people, Read more [...]

The Feast of Epiphany

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

“Once upon a time there were some very wise men who were all sitting in their own countries minding their own business when a bright star lodged in the right eye of each of them. It was so bright that none of them could tell whether it was burning Read more [...]

The Action of Grace & Not Measuring the Mystery

Posted on January 4, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

ENTER INTO THE STORY, THE WATER, AND THE INCARNATION No storyteller worth his or her salt, from Jesus of Nazareth to the Bard of Avon to Toni Morrison to Tom Waits, will ever give a direct, cocksure, unambiguous answer to the question, Read more [...]

Where Christ Hides and Resides

Posted on December 29, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Sadly, Merton's oft-quoted passage, is as timely, stinging, revealing, and indicting as when he penned it in 1960. Into this world, this demented inn, in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited. But because Read more [...]

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