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Life-Line

Posted on July 9, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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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 [...]
Posted in Universe | Tagged Communion, Creation, Divine, Earth, Human Being, Nature, Numinous, Thomas Berry, Wonder | 2 Replies

Life-Line

Posted on June 11, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well for we will not fight to save what we do not love. ~ Stephen J. Gould Read more [...]
Posted in Creation | Tagged Creation, Earth, Earth Care, Love, Nature | Leave a reply

If You Want — A Poem for Christmas Eve

Posted on December 24, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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            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 [...]
Posted in Advent & Christmas | Tagged Birthing, Christ, Creation, Hospitality, Mary of Nazareth, St. John of the Cross | Leave a reply

Life-Line

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Breath, Christ, Creation, Listen, Music, Spirit | Leave a reply

Life-Line

Posted on November 20, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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      Today's Life-Line is: When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion, then I go out and paint the stars. ~ Vincent Van Gogh Read more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Art, Awe, Beauty, Creation, Nature, Vincent Van Gogh | 1 Reply

Life-Line

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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    Today's Life-Line is: I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with a man does to marrying him. It's completely different. ~ Annie Dillard   Read more [...]
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Life-Line

Posted on July 24, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: To commit a crime against the natural world is a sin. ... For humans to cause species to become extinct and to destroy the biological diversity of God's creation, for humans to degrade the integrity of the earth by stripping the Read more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Creation, Earth Care, Sin | Leave a reply

Life-Line

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: The survival of the planet Earth in its integral reality is, it seems to me, the basic issue that confronts us here. In some basic sense, the human project and the Earth project are a single project. There is no way in which the Read more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Christianity, Creation, Earth Care, Thomas Berry | Leave a reply

What Makes the Soul Great

Posted on November 24, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller
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For the past 18 months I have been listening to the now President-Elect repeatedly encourage his followers with the slogan "Let's Make America Great Again." All the while I have been acutely aware of how different his understanding of greatness is Read more [...]
Posted in Gratefulness | Tagged Abraham Heschel, Creation, Gratefulness, Greatness, Jesus, Mystery, Prayer, Wonder | 3 Replies

Life-Line

Posted on October 10, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: Before you can love a person you have to start with simpler things and gradually build up your skill --- start with a rock, a cloud, a tree. ~ Carson McCullers Read more [...]
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