TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 5/29/18

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

STOP and Listen When Mitch Albom, a successful, award-winning sportswriter for the Detroit Free Press, was 37 years old he learned that his favorite teacher from Brandeis University, Morrie Schwartz, was dying of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (commonly Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 5/15/18

Posted on May 15, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

The original names and numbers of all the players in this story have been kept as has the diminutive nickname of my brother who is the main character in this short tale. In those days, especially on the ball field or court, most children’s names, Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 4/24/18

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

A Balance of Commonness and a Deep, Deep Hole This is a story told by Alan Rabinowitz. Rabinowitz is a world renowned zoologist, wildlife conservationist, and co-founder of Panthera – the only organization in the world exclusively committed to Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 4/17/18

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

"Faith is a blush in the presence of God." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel WATER INTO WINE A century ago, a young student at the great Oxford University in England was taking an important examination in religious studies. The examination question for this Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 4/10/18

Posted on April 10, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

One day, a countryman knocked hard on a monastery door. When the monk tending the gates opened up, he was given a magnificent bunch of grapes. "Brother, these are the finest my vineyard has produced. I’ve come to bear them as a gift." "Thank Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 3/27/18

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

The country and world we live in suffer from a REVERENCE deficiency. For this reason I offer you the following story. The Rabbi's Gift There was a famous monastery which had fallen on hard times. Formerly its many buildings were filled with Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 3/20/18

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. ~ Barry Lopez Great stories happen to those who can tell them. ~ Ira Glass Martin Buber passes on a delightfully transformational Hasidic tale: MY GRANDFATHER was paralyzed. Once he Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 3/12/18

Posted on March 13, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

ON THE DAY OF THE RACE, he waited with the others and felt that life was waiting in the hills. He couldn’t say why, but a blessing was about to happen. As the gun went off, he could hear the rush of all the racers breathing---like Read more [...]

Can I Get an Amen? ~ TUESDAYS WITH STORY — 2/13/18

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Once upon a time a man was walking beside a wide river. He was meditating on the law of the Lord, for he believed that if he kept his mind fixed on spiritual thoughts all the time, he would achieve perfection. Just then his thoughts were broken Read more [...]

On Story ~ TUESDAYS WITH STORY — 2/6/18

Posted on February 6, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Like you, I come from a family of storytellers. My guess is that is not a presumptuous sentence. We all have stories. In my family there were stories told so often they are indelibly etched in my brain. Stories so real that for years my father’s childhood Read more [...]

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