The Deepest Bow to God is Awe

Posted on May 20, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Religion begins with the sense of the ineffable, with the awareness of a reality that discredits our wisdom, that shatters our concepts. It is the ineffable with which we must begin. ~ Abraham Heschel One reason I was drawn to Rabbi Abraham Heschel's Read more [...]

All Saints Day

Posted on November 1, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

It was because the saints were absorbed in God that they were truly capable of seeing and appreciating created things and it was because they loved [God] alone that they alone loved everybody. ~ Thomas Merton Read more [...]

My Sunday Mo(u)rning Rant*

Posted on May 30, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Experience shows humans tend to care for what we know and love, those we know and love. So the summons to life, the summons from and for life, the summons for survival -- no longer ours, but that of our children and grandchildren and the well-being Read more [...]

All Creation is Waiting

Posted on December 3, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

ADVENT is a Time of Waiting and all creation, not merely humans, wait and yearn for the day when shalom and shalem embrace and together become the stillness within the song and the song within the stillness that bring healing and jubilation at last to Read more [...]

Poem 7 for the Season of Creation*

Posted on September 29, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

OUT CAMPING Today comes walking over the water in the early morning. A bird scribes the skin of the lake. Everything trembles. Ours is the world of the swallow wing, a scene turning and curving, and we are in it, scribing our own reflection of Read more [...]

Sister Mahala and Brother Weeps’ Most Important Teachers

Posted on September 11, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

A man in his mid-twenties said to Sister Mahala and Brother Weeps, “You have taught us so much these past few years. We are grateful for all that you have opened up for us. The provocative questions you have raised we will carry with us for the Read more [...]

Poem 1 for The Season of Creation*

Posted on September 3, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

AVOIDING NEWS BY THE RIVER As the stars hide in the light before daybreak Reed warblers hunt along the narrow stream Trout rise to their shadows Milky light flows through the branches Fills with blood Men will be waking In an hour it will be Read more [...]

A Prayer, a Vision, a Call

Posted on August 21, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

O Divine Spirit! During the weeks and months ahead, stir our hearts and minds that we might fight for a vision that is worthy of you and your call to honor the dignity of all of your creation. A vision of who we are as a people, grounded in Read more [...]

A Place Where One Would Want to Live

Posted on September 19, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

A parable beginning before our time, for our time, and for time after time. A story of the power of one: one person, one imaginative idea turned into one wild dream, one wild dream enacted one day, then another, and another. One story of a simple hidden Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on July 9, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The ultimate concern of the human must be the integrity of the universe upon which the human depends in such an absolute manner . . . Even our sense of the divine comes to us mainly, not through scriptural communication, Read more [...]

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