Only One Response Can Maintain Us

Posted on July 14, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Years ago the magazine Christian Century used to a have a one page feature that I enjoyed. For each issue an invited theologian was asked to choose a favorite poem which was displayed followed by a statement of maybe a hundred or hundred-fifty words Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped Read more [...]

Pensées – More on Hope

Posted on December 31, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

What is hope? It is a presentiment that imagination is more real And reality less real than it looks. ~ Rubem Alves So much is in the bud. ~ Denise Levertov As stated in my reflection “Pensées – Advent Pondering 2,” Advent is a season Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 10/30/18

Posted on October 30, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and four-year-old grandson. The old man’s health was diminishing. He grew more forgetful and frail each day. His hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred, his balance was unreliable, and Read more [...]

The Gift Who Was Claire Wineland

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

I do these talks to make a point that you can have a painful life, you can suffer, you can experience what it's like to feel like a human being -- all those messy and gross emotions -- and yet you can make a life for yourself that you are very, very Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Part of me suspected that it was not the boy who made the velveteen rabbit real but the rabbit that made the boy real. ~ Eula Biss Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 6/19/18

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Once upon a time some disciples begged their old and ailing master not to die. "But if I do not go, how will you ever see?" the Master said to them. "What is it we can possibly see when you are gone?" one of them asked. With a twinkle in his eye, Read more [...]

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 [...]

Life-Line

Posted on May 28, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends upon it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. ~ Mary Read more [...]

The Bait-and-Switch Switch

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

ASH WEDNESDAY-- In advertising there is the well-known tactic of "bait-and-switch." There are different ways of doing this. One way is to advertise a particular product in such a way that it gets potential buyers into the store only then to substitute Read more [...]

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Only One Response Can Maintain Us

Life-Line

Pensées – More on Hope

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 10/30/18

The Gift Who Was Claire Wineland

Life-Line

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 6/19/18

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 5/29/18

Life-Line

The Bait-and-Switch Switch