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Life-Line

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: This is what I have learned: that what the wise ones discover, what some, though not all, of those who have been tenderized by life understand, what those who have awakened from the long night into the light of day come to see, Read more [...]
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Life-Line

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: I was taught that I had to ‘master’ subjects. But who can ‘master’ beauty, or peace, or joy? ~ Kathleen Norris Read more [...]
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Life-Line

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: It is a sad day for our country when we trade the majestic, hope-filled symbolism of the Statue of Liberty for an ineffective and grotesque wall which both displays and inflames the ethnic and cultural divisions that have long Read more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Compassion, Freedom, God, Hospitality, Immigration, Justice, Works of Mercy | 1 Reply

Life-Line

Posted on April 8, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: If deadly violence can in fact stop deadly violence, then why has deadly violence not stopped? ~ Wendell Berry Read more [...]
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We Remember — MLK, Jr.

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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(January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) We remember that fifty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King, drum major for justice, follower of the Prince of Peace, martyr for rooting out racism as a gardener for God, and prophet of non-violence, was assassinated Read more [...]
Posted in Exemplars of Faith, Uncategorized | Tagged Courage, Love, Martin Luther King, Non-Violence, Prophet | 1 Reply

Holy Saturday: Living In-Between

Posted on March 31, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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"Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." (Jn. 12: 24) If we see Holy Saturday only in terms of chronological time, it is reduced merely to Read more [...]
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Life-Line

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: Through violence you may murder a murderer but you can’t murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar but you can’t establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can’t murder hate. Darkness Read more [...]
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TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 3/12/18

Posted on March 13, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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      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 [...]
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TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 2/27/18

Posted on February 27, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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There once was a sculptor working hard with his hammer and chisel on a large block of marble. A little boy who was watching him saw nothing more than large and small pieces of stone falling away left and right. He had no idea what was happening. But when Read more [...]
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Life-Line

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: Recently I overheard a man bemoan that when he asked his granddaughter if she wanted to go with him on a short outing she replied, “Let me check my schedule.” She was twelve and deadly serious. Trains need schedules as do Read more [...]
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