Life-Line

Posted on April 8, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is a poem by the late American poet Stanley Kunitz (1905 - 2006). Before reading "The Long Boat" you might want to read the short explanation of Lectio Poetica (<-- Click on the blue) and use the poem for prayerful reflection. The Read more [...]

A Purification ~ A Life-Line

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: A Purification At start of spring I open a trench in the ground. I put into it the winter’s accumulation of paper, pages I do not want to read again, useless words, fragments, errors. And I put into it the contents Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on February 18, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC. ~ Kurt Vonnegut for example (or for proof), CLICK HERE: Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on October 8, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Christian spirituality, that is, living the Christ-life, involves the conscious, intentional, immediate, and ongoing choice to incarnate love wherever we are, in the full awareness of our own contingency and imminent death. ~ Read more [...]

The Gift Who Was Claire Wineland

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

I do these talks to make a point that you can have a painful life, you can suffer, you can experience what it's like to feel like a human being -- all those messy and gross emotions -- and yet you can make a life for yourself that you are very, very Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 5/29/18

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

STOP and Listen When Mitch Albom, a successful, award-winning sportswriter for the Detroit Free Press, was 37 years old he learned that his favorite teacher from Brandeis University, Morrie Schwartz, was dying of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (commonly 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 [...]

Pensées: Notes for Talks

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Pray to be able to greet death like a companion or a trusted friend waiting on the bank of the other shore who reaches out to you and helps you manage the last slippery stones of a rushing stream as you step safely across from life to new life. The 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 [...]

The Touch of Love — It Is Everything

Posted on May 29, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today is the Feast of Corpus Christi (The Body of Christ). I have spoken and written a fair amount over the years about the Eucharist. My article “Listening to the Wind in the Wheat” says much though not all of what I believe is important about the Read more [...]

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Tag Archives: Death

Life-Line

A Purification ~ A Life-Line

Life-Line

Life-Line

The Gift Who Was Claire Wineland

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 5/29/18

Life-Line

Pensées: Notes for Talks

Life-Line

The Touch of Love — It Is Everything