The Blessed Tension—When Suffering and Beauty Kiss

Posted on November 15, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMxd_XwsKsw Beauty will save the world. ~ Dostoevsky Alexander Solzhenitsyn also wrestled with this line in his 1970 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, and we're lucky to be privy to his chain of thought here: "One Read more [...]

The World Will Be Saved By ——

Posted on June 4, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

There is an all-too-familiar adage—"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"—that has allowed many to assume beauty is utterly subjective. In fact, beauty is no more subjective than goodness or truth which together allude to the triadic nature of God. Read more [...]

What We Breathe Out into the World Makes All the Difference

Posted on May 16, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

One drop continually dripped wears away even the strongest stone. Little strokes fell great oaks. No one comes out of their mother's womb hateful, racist, or evil. More and more I've come to believe that to be a Christ-one—or minimally, a person Read more [...]

Show Me Something Unbeautiful ~ A Life-Line

Posted on December 29, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: It is dawn. The sun is conquering the sky and my grandmother and I are heaving prayers at the horizon. “Show me something unbeautiful,” she says, “and I will show you the veil over your eyes and take it away. And Read more [...]

A Feather Weightier than the Daily Bombs

Posted on July 10, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

I haven't posted much of late as I'm busy writing other things. But I came across this by accident and it moved me. So, I thought I'd pass it on, in case you haven't seen it. Sometimes we find the best things in really strange places. Like on American Read more [...]

The Sacrament of Music

Posted on April 7, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Aaaah! The power of music to move people, to return us to ourselves, to act on young and old alike, to connect us to one another -- family, friend, stranger, foe -- to rearrange our precious plans by the maestro's genius for arranging notes that lean Read more [...]

Lectio Poetica No. 10

Posted on April 6, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

We read Lectio under the eye of God Meditatio until the heart is touched Oratio and leaps into flame. Contemplatio ~ Dom Marmion For a write-up on Read more [...]

Nature’s Power to Mirror

Posted on March 27, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

We must first honor and cherish all creation as an expression or mirror of the Divine Beauty. "This, then, is salvation, when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise the beautiful providence of their Creator," wrote Meister Eckhart. ~ Read more [...]

Help Us to See

Posted on January 30, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Days pass and the years vanish and we walk sightless among miracles. [You] fill our eyes with seeing and our minds with knowing. Let there be moments when your Presence, like lightning, illumines the darkness in which we walk. Help us to see, wherever Read more [...]

Living Faithfully in the Tension

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-line is: [A]s the great French writer Albert Camus once suggested, there is in the world beauty, and there are the humiliated, and we must strive, hard as it is, not to be unfaithful either to the one or to the other. ~William Sloan Read more [...]

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