What You Are in Love with Affects Everything ~ A Life-Line

Posted on August 12, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Let me be clear about this final point, which hinges on faith’s grasp of a gratuitous, merciful, healing presence even amid the storms of life. For Christians of every color, solidarity with the stranger and the option of the Read more [...]

Ash Wednesday and All the Trees of God

Posted on March 6, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Ash Wednesday Receive this cross of ash upon your brow Brought from the burning of Palm Sunday’s cross; The forests of the world are burning now And you make late repentance for the loss. But all the trees of God would clap their hands, The Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 5/22/18

Posted on May 22, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

The Prisoner and the Potato Tosser Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.~ Dalai Lama XIV In 2009, John J. McNeill psychotherapist, theologian, and Catholic priest received New Ways Ministry’s 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 July 17, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: We would rather be ruined than changed, We would rather die in dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die. ~ W. H. Auden Read more [...]

Resurrection: The Radical Imperative

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

The consumerist society in which we live has successfully commercialized religious holidays. This is well known, easily observed, and not a little ink has been spilled reminding us of it. Easter is no exception. And yet, the blame game where Christians Read more [...]

Triduum Triptych – Panel 2

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

The short reflections for each of the three days of Triduum were published as one piece in Spirituality Mar/Apr 2012; No. 101 under the title “The Paschal Mystery.” Good Friday The 13th century German mystic, theologian, and preacher Meister Eckhart Read more [...]

The Ashes and the Cross

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

Part I Today is Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. Lent is a season for deliberate self-inventory and communal reflection as it relates to the incarnation of faith, hope, and love. I like to remind people that the ashes Christians “receive” Read more [...]

Dare to Grow

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

I have been rereading some of Thomas Keating’s work this week. Below are a few words that gave me pause and drew me in for some pondering. Hear Keating in light of a quote I shared with you on Sunday, April 7th by poet W. H. Auden: “We would rather Read more [...]

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What You Are in Love with Affects Everything ~ A Life-Line

Ash Wednesday and All the Trees of God

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 5/22/18

Life-Line

Life-Line

Resurrection: The Radical Imperative

Triduum Triptych – Panel 2

The Ashes and the Cross

Dare to Grow