THE DREAM TEAM: My Starting Five ~ 4. Compassion

Posted on June 10, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Suppose your spiritual life was a basketball team. Who would be your starting five? Remember this: All suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered it first. ~ Meister Eckhart The love of our neighbor in all Read more [...]

Pentecost ~ We Are the Sent Ones

Posted on June 5, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

On Pentecost Jesus gave his disciples and thus gives us today two presents in particular: one is a confidence, the other is a command; one is an assurance, the other is an assignment. The first gift is peace, shalom. Jesus comes to the disciples in Read more [...]

To Be Grateful ~ A Life-line

Posted on June 4, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Note ~ This passage originally was written as prose. It comes from Merton's book Thoughts in Solitude. It's a follow up to my reflection on June 2, 2022 on Gratefulness. Today's Life-Line is: To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in Read more [...]

Why are Our Children Bearing the Burden of the Right to Bear Arms? | Opinion

Posted on June 3, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Guest Columnists: Kelsey Gastineau, Maya Neeley and Dena Ibrahim NOTE WELL: The following piece appeared on June 1, 2022, in the Opinion section of the Nashville newspaper The Tennessean. It is co-authored by three local pediatricians. I offer it here Read more [...]

THE DREAM TEAM: My Starting Five ~ 3. Gratefulness

Posted on June 2, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Suppose your spiritual life was a basketball team. Who would be your starting five? For all that has been—Thanks! To all that shall be—Yes! ~ Dag Hammarskjold “Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive Read more [...]

Speaking of Wonder & Awe

Posted on June 1, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

A moment of awe is a moment of self-consecration. They who sense the wonder share in the wonder. They who keep holy the things that are holy shall themselves become holy. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel PHOTO: Kathy Conzelman. Used with permission. Read more [...]

THE DREAM TEAM: My Starting Five ~ 2. Wonder

Posted on May 31, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Suppose your spiritual life was a basketball team. Who would be your starting five? I think us here to wonder, myself. . . The more I wonder. . . the more I love. ~ Shug in The Color Purple, Alice Walker There are only two ways to live . . . one Read more [...]

‘Tis a Fearful Thing to Love

Posted on May 30, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

‘Tis a fearful thing to love what death can touch. A fearful thing to love, to hope, to dream, to be ― to be, and oh, to lose. A thing for fools, this, and a holy thing, a holy thing to love. For your life has lived in me, your laugh Read more [...]

THE DREAM TEAM: My Starting Five ~ 1. Love

Posted on May 29, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Suppose your spiritual life was a basketball team. Who would be your starting five? Let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. ~ 1 John 3:18 I really only love God as much as I love the person I love least. ~ Dorothy Day Sports enthusiasts Read more [...]

What’s Going On?

Posted on May 28, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

There is something deeply disturbing when the songs from our youth—like Marvin Gaye's WHAT'S GOING ON—that articulate or allude to the exasperation, agony, unnecessary suffering, and righteous anger of the time in response to the Vietnam War, the Read more [...]

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