What, Goodpeople, Are We to Do? ~ No. 1

Posted on March 26, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

PART 1 of 2 Everything terrifying is, in its deepest being, something helpless that wants our help. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke What makes loneliness an anguish Is not that I have no one to share my burden, But this: I have only my own burden to bear. ~ Read more [...]

Acting Our Way into Belief ~ A Life-Line

Posted on October 19, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Bridges once wrote Gerard Manley Hopkins and asked him to tell him how he, Bridges, could believe. Bridges was an agnostic. Hopkins wrote back, "Give alms." ~ Flannery O'Connor Goodpeople, thank you for visiting THE ALMOND TREE. So Read more [...]

Brother Weeps Encourages: Join the Choir

Posted on April 25, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

One day before Brother Weeps began his daily conference with the novices, a young monk raised his hand. "Yes, Brother Placid," said Brother Weeps. "Brother Weeps, why when church groups or organizations come to the Abbey for retreat do you Read more [...]

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What, Goodpeople, Are We to Do? ~ No. 1

Acting Our Way into Belief ~ A Life-Line

Brother Weeps Encourages: Join the Choir