About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

For Mothering Love

Posted on May 14, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

In gratitude for mothering love offered by women who have birthed, nurtured, and sustained life whether in the physical offspring of children cared for and encouraged or in the progeny of integrity, kindness, creativity, and compassion. In Read more [...]

Sister Mahala and Brother Weeps on Becoming Human and Holy

Posted on May 12, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

“Sister Mahala, Brother Weeps says that to become human and holy we must endure many trials, experience much suffering, undergo failures and unravelings, even humiliations,” said a young man. “That’s true,” said Sister Mahala, “many Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on May 8, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: What the wise ones know--- the friends of God, the artisans of life, the apprentices of love--- is NOT TO WAIT for tragedy or trauma to wake them up to the incomprehensible surprise of being, to the dizzying resplendence of Read more [...]

Our First Vocation

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

O love that fires the sun keep me burning. ~ Bruce Cockburn The man, bruised and filthy, chained by his feet and wrists to the wall, smiled to himself. Seeing this, the guard barked, “What are you smiling at?” The prisoner said softly, “You Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: I don’t know Who—or what—put the question, I don’t know when it was put. I don’t even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone—or Something—and from that Read more [...]

Something Overheard in a Dream

Posted on April 27, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

“Are you coming to the potluck?" “Yes, I’m planning to. Whose bringing what?” “A-L are bringing Life. M-Z are bringing Love.” “Should be quite the feast.” “I hope so.” ~ Dan Miller ⊕ Life's not just about "showing up." It's Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 24, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The voice of God is heard in Paradise: “What was vile has become precious. What is now precious was never vile. I have always known the vile as precious: for what is vile I know not at all. "What was cruel has become merciful. Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Resurrection is not a consoling opium, soothing us with the promise of a better world in the hereafter. It is the energy for a rebirth of this life. The hope doesn’t point to another world. It is focused on the redemption of Read more [...]

Easter Sunday– for Joy!

Posted on April 16, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

I thank you God for most this amazing i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything which Read more [...]

Holy Saturday — The Fertile Darkness

Posted on April 15, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Fine wine takes time. ~ every skilled vintner It takes a very long time to become young. ~ Pablo Picasso I have said elsewhere that the tendency to skip over Good Friday and to rush unperturbed and undisturbed in our Sunday best to Easter is fraught Read more [...]

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Author Archives: Daniel J. Miller

About Daniel J. Miller

For Mothering Love

Sister Mahala and Brother Weeps on Becoming Human and Holy

Life-Line

Our First Vocation

Life-Line

Something Overheard in a Dream

Life-Line

Life-Line

Easter Sunday– for Joy!

Holy Saturday — The Fertile Darkness