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 [...]

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 [...]

The Authority of Love

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

At its core, the Christ-life specifically, and the spiritual life more broadly, involves the recentering of our subjectivity from self to God. In this conscious, ongoing, and radical realignment there is a dethroning of successive emperors who rule and Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on October 10, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Before you can love a person you have to start with simpler things and gradually build up your skill --- start with a rock, a cloud, a tree. ~ Carson McCullers Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on September 5, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: O love that fires the sun keep me burning. ~ Bruce Cockburn Read more [...]

The Preeminent Question

Posted on May 1, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

To say that there is a God, to say that God is, is to say that “love is the source, center, and destiny of experience.”[i] To be made in the image of God means that we are gifted-into-being, that our very being, our being at all, our being here Read more [...]

Giving Lovers to the World

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

This past weekend the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles hosted the annual Religious Education Congress in Anaheim. In general, I think religious education has to die and be reborn as faith formation and spiritual formation for transformation would Read more [...]

Love: To Know as We Are Known

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

“You created my inmost self, knit me together in my mother's womb. For so many marvels I thank you; a wonder am I, and all your works are wonders. You knew me through and through, my being held no secrets from you, when I was being formed in Read more [...]

The Foolishness of Love

Posted on April 1, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

HOLY THURSDAY In her book O Pioneers! Willa Cather the Nebraskan novelist and chronicler of pioneering life in 20th century America has one of her characters say this: "There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves Read more [...]

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Category Archives: Love

Our First Vocation

Something Overheard in a Dream

The Authority of Love

Life-Line

Life-Line

The Preeminent Question

Giving Lovers to the World

Love: To Know as We Are Known

The Foolishness of Love