St. Francis — Receiver & Giver of Joy

Posted on October 4, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

"Joy is the most undeniable sign of the presence of God." ~ Leon Bloy Beginning in the early 1980's, I began making regular jaunts to Weston, Vermont to spend time with the Benedictine Brothers at Weston Priory nestled at the foot of the Green Mountains. Read more [...]

Abolishing Division ~ A Life-Line

Posted on October 15, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-line is: Joy, laughter, and delight are so powerful because, like all mysticism, they abolish conventional divisions, in this case the division between secular and sacred. ~ Dorothee Soelle I have long appreciated what I call "the Read more [...]

Poem 6 for the Season of Creation*

Posted on September 24, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

LECTIO POETICA If you have not read the explanation for Lectio Poetica, I encourage you to read it here before reading Oliver’s poem below. SNOW GEESE Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last! What a task to ask of anything, or anyone, yet Read more [...]

“You’re here! You’re Here!” ~ A Life-Line

Posted on May 20, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Recently, I just buried my mom and she was ninety-two years old. She was a sweetheart and never afraid of death. Once she said to me, "You know I've never done this before" like it was skydiving. You know, she was just kind of Read more [...]

A Week with Mary Oliver — Day 7

Posted on January 26, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Mindful Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. It was what I was born for-- to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world-- to instruct Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise — Wonder

Posted on January 14, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Wonder [wuhn-der] This week our word is WONDER. This year in The Human & the Holy community (H&H), we are eavesdropping on and then joining in an imagined conversation between four wise guides. One of those sages is Rabbi Abraham Joshua Read more [...]

Delighting in the Nod of God

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

Listening to the Excitement (continued) I don't know Who -- or what -- put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone --or Something --and from that hour I was certain that Read more [...]

Listening Loudly: The Doorway to Delight

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

◊ Listening to the Excitement (continued) If things created are so full of loveliness, how resplendent with beauty must be the One who made them! ~ St. Anthony of Padua If we leave our assumptions and measuring sticks for what is meaningful behind, Read more [...]

Listening to the Excitement

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

For lack of attention, a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day. ~ Evelyn Underhill When I was a young boy growing up in Seattle, nothing thrilled my brothers, sisters and me more than the possibility each winter of snow and, heavens willing, Read more [...]

Of Marcia, Sunlight, and the Duty of Pleasure

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

One of the reasons that I have drawn our attention thus far to the sheer enjoyment that comes from the playfulness, refreshment, or voltage of language is because in addition to the ability to break us open poetry has the capacity to retrieve for us the Read more [...]

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