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5th Anniversary of Sandy Hook Tragedy

Posted on December 14, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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TODAY is the 5th Anniversary of the Sandy Hook shootings in Newton, Connecticut. 20-grade schoolers aged 6 and 7 and six adult staff members at the school were killed. Let us not grow complacent or used to such human-instigated tragedies. Let us remember Read more [...]
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Tuesday Advent Meditation

Posted on December 12, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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Although Mary’s labor was a singularly physical and eternally unmatched act, it’s meaning is most fully and faithfully experienced only if we understand it as a commission for us to do the same. Put simply, in order for God to be manifest on Read more [...]
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Advent Prayer II

Posted on December 10, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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Advent Blessings, Friends. To pray and reflect on Advent Prayer II, click here.   Read more [...]
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Advent Reflection

Posted on December 9, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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During this season of Advent we dare to move beyond the reach of human reason, to dream of the radical nature of the peaceable kingdom for which we all yearn and which is symbolized in the shocking and evocative biblical image of the wolf lying down with Read more [...]
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Life-Line

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: I am A hole in a flute That the Christ's breath moves through--- Listen to this Music. I am the concert From the mouth of every Creature Singing with the myriad Chords. "A Hole in a Flute" by Hafiz from The Gift: Poems Read more [...]
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Life-Line

Posted on November 20, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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      Today's Life-Line is: When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion, then I go out and paint the stars. ~ Vincent Van Gogh Read more [...]
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Life-Line

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: The Beautiful Changes One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides The Queen Anne’s Lace lying like lilies On water; it glides So from the walker, it turns Dry grass to a lake, as the slightest shade of you Valleys Read more [...]
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Life-Line

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: We learn to praise God not by paying compliments, but by paying attention. Watch how the trees exult when the wind is in them. Mark the utter stillness of the great blue heron in the swamp. Listen to the sound of the rain. Learn Read more [...]
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Life-Line

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: Six months ago I walked across Spain. Five hundred miles. Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. . . I saw my life. The Camino was my life. My life compressed to forty days and forty nights. A Read more [...]
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Life-Line

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: ”Even in the pit of hell, it’s a mitzvah to be joyful.” So said Rabbi Nachman of Bretslov, a mystic in the Hasidic tradition. A mitzvah is an act that honors the Divine. Even in hell, it is possible to be joyful, because Read more [...]
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  • In Gratitude for the Wild and Precious Life of Mary Oliver
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