THE DREAM TEAM: My Starting Five ~ 3. Gratefulness

Posted on June 2, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Suppose your spiritual life was a ball 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 in you.” Read more [...]

Only Our Heart

Posted on February 14, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. ~ Blaise Pascal Our eyes see, but only our heart looks through things to their meaning. Our nose registers scents, but only our heart will track like a hound its ethereal quarry. Our tongue Read more [...]

The Measure of Our Aliveness

Posted on November 24, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: What counts on your path to fulfillment is that we remember the great truth that moments of surprise want to teach us: everything is gratuitous, everything is gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is the measure Read more [...]

Gratefulness: Practicing the Difficult Simple

Posted on December 19, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

I have long maintained that from among the plethora of words within the 16 documents from the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church (1962-65), perhaps the most important words were four that are found in the first chapter of the Constitution Read more [...]

Bound By Thanks

Posted on November 26, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude. ~ A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself. ~Albert Schweitzer To Read more [...]

The Authority of Love

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

At its core, the Christ-life specifically, and the spiritual life more broadly, involves the recentering of our subjectivity from self to God. In this conscious, ongoing, and radical realignment there is a dethroning of successive emperors who rule and Read more [...]

Everything is Gift

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

“What counts on your path to fulfillment is that we remember the great truth that moments of surprise want to teach us: everything is gratuitous, everything is gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is the measure of our gratefulness. and Read more [...]

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