Life-Line

Posted on December 24, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Christ Climbed Down Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this year and ran away to where there were no rootless Christmas trees hung with candycanes and breakable stars Christ climbed down from His bare Tree this year Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 4/17/18

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

"Faith is a blush in the presence of God." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel WATER INTO WINE A century ago, a young student at the great Oxford University in England was taking an important examination in religious studies. The examination question for this Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 2, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The outstretched arms of Christ on the cross hold and take with him to death everything that is wrong in the world, everything that is awry in us, every contradiction of how things are supposed to be, every violation of our own Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on March 5, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: no time ago or else a life walking in the dark i met christ jesus)my heart flopped over and lay still while he passed(as close as i'm to you yes closer made of nothing except loneliness ~ E. E. Cummings Read more [...]

If You Want — A Poem for Christmas Eve

Posted on December 24, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

If you want the Virgin will come walking down the road pregnant with the holy, and say, “I need shelter for the night, please take me inside your heart, my time is so close.” Then, Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

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 [...]

A Thousand Goodnesses

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Christ beside me, Christ before me; Christ behind me, Christ within me; Christ beneath me, Christ above me; Christ to right of me, Christ to left of me; Christ in my lying, my sitting, my rising; Christ in heart of all who know me, Christ on tongue Read more [...]

What is Christmas?

Posted on December 25, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

It is the Yes of Mary to the Yes of God inviting the Yes of us to the Yes of God. It is the surrogacy of love giving birth to new possibilities. It is the magnificat of Mary’s hospitality undoing the homelessness of hope. It is the face of the Read more [...]

The Glory of God-Given, the Solidarity of God-Present

Posted on December 24, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

"Emmanuel (God-with-us), to whom we pleadingly sing “O come, O come,” is the human enfleshment of the one same divine presence that has been from the beginning but to which humans have a habit of becoming blind. Christ makes God present in the Read more [...]

The Call to Spiritual Surrogacy

Posted on December 21, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

There is a word I love and have mentioned before, a Greek word essential to a Catholic understanding of the Eucharist and, I think, to our celebration of the hallowed events that we celebrate each Advent and Christmas. The word is anamnesis. It refers Read more [...]

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Life-Line

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 4/17/18

Life-Line

Life-Line

If You Want — A Poem for Christmas Eve

Life-Line

A Thousand Goodnesses

What is Christmas?

The Glory of God-Given, the Solidarity of God-Present

The Call to Spiritual Surrogacy