What Makes the Soul Great

Posted on November 24, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

For the past 18 months I have been listening to the now President-Elect repeatedly encourage his followers with the slogan "Let's Make America Great Again." All the while I have been acutely aware of how different his understanding of greatness is Read more [...]

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 February 22, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: I think the dying pray at last not “Please,” but “Thank you,” as a guest thanks a host at the door. ~ Annie Dillard Read more [...]

Gratefulness: Receiving Everything as Grace

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

No one comes out of their mother’s womb gratefully. Gratitude is something learned. Like all virtues and qualities that enhance wholehearted living, it is most effectively learned by consciously practicing it. The most profound wisdom learnings often Read more [...]

Gift

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

Here's a poem for Epiphany-- Gift A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. I knew no one worth my envying him. Whatever Read more [...]

Everything is Gift

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

“What counts on your path to fulfillment is that we remember the great truth that moments of surprise want to teach us: everything is gratuitous, everything is gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is the measure of our gratefulness. and Read more [...]

Thanksgiving Eve

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

"Thanking is a true understanding of who we really are." ~ Julian of Norwich "It seems to me in the light of the Divine Goodness . . . that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins . . . . For it is a forgetting of the graces, benefits, and blessings Read more [...]

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