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 [...]

Martin Luther King, Jr. ~ A Life-Line

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: There is something unfolding in the universe whether one speaks of it as an unconscious process, or whether one speaks of it as an unmoved mover, or whether one speaks of it as a personal God. There is something in the universe Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: We learn to praise God not by paying compliments, but by paying attention. Watch how the trees exult when the wind is in them. Mark the utter stillness of the great blue heron in the swamp. Listen to the sound of the rain. Learn Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on October 16, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Neither I nor the poets I love have found the keys to the kingdom of prayer and we cannot force God to stumble over us where we sit. But I know that it’s a good idea to sit anyway. So every morning I Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Six months ago I walked across Spain. Five hundred miles. Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. . . I saw my life. The Camino was my life. My life compressed to forty days and forty nights. A 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 September 11, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: We must bless without wanting to manipulate. Without insisting that everything be straightened out right now. Without insisting that our truth be known. This means simply turning whoever it is we need to bless over to God, knowing Read more [...]

Holy Communion

Posted on August 27, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

When a beggar asks for food is God not bread, or the one who gives it, for the one who needs it? Does not the unfortunate woman say “God bless you” as you turn and go your fortunate way? And if you are the one who gives it today after leaving the Read more [...]

Lectio Poetica No. 1

Posted on July 19, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

We read Lectio under the eye of God Meditatio until the heart is touched Oratio and leaps into flame. Contemplatio ~ Dom Marmion He does not always Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on May 8, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: What the wise ones know--- the friends of God, the artisans of life, the apprentices of love--- is NOT TO WAIT for tragedy or trauma to wake them up to the incomprehensible surprise of being, to the dizzying resplendence of Read more [...]

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Life-Line

Martin Luther King, Jr. ~ A Life-Line

Life-Line

Life-Line

Life-Line

Pensées: Notes for Talks

Life-Line

Holy Communion

Lectio Poetica No. 1

Life-Line