Our First Vocation

Posted on May 4, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

O love that fires the sun keep me burning. ~ Bruce Cockburn The man, bruised and filthy, chained by his feet and wrists to the wall, smiled to himself. Seeing this, the guard barked, “What are you smiling at?” The prisoner said softly, “You Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 24, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The voice of God is heard in Paradise: “What was vile has become precious. What is now precious was never vile. I have always known the vile as precious: for what is vile I know not at all. "What was cruel has become merciful. Read more [...]

Easter Sunday– for Joy!

Posted on April 16, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

I thank you God for most this amazing i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything which Read more [...]

The Authority of Love

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

At its core, the Christ-life specifically, and the spiritual life more broadly, involves the recentering of our subjectivity from self to God. In this conscious, ongoing, and radical realignment there is a dethroning of successive emperors who rule and Read more [...]

Another Kind of Praise: A Life-Line

Posted on April 3, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Praise is joy aimed at God. But when the heart breaks, when everything we taste is bitter as lemon pith, when all we have to offer the Holy One is vulnerability, fragility, regret, the poverty of our sorrow or grief, worry Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on March 27, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable. ~ Emmanuel Levinas Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Truly! Truly! By God! By God! Be as sure of it as you are that God lives: at the least good deed done here in this world, the least bit of good will, the least good desire, all the saints in heaven and on earth rejoice, and together Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on January 23, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Dear God, I am Amearican. What are you? Robert ~ from Dear God: Children's Letters to God, David Heller, Ph.D. Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on January 2, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: What we would like to do is change the world--make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended them to do. And, by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights Read more [...]

The Glory of God-Given, the Solidarity of God-Present

Posted on December 24, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

"Emmanuel (God-with-us), to whom we pleadingly sing “O come, O come,” is the human enfleshment of the one same divine presence that has been from the beginning but to which humans have a habit of becoming blind. Christ makes God present in the Read more [...]

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Our First Vocation

Life-Line

Easter Sunday– for Joy!

The Authority of Love

Another Kind of Praise: A Life-Line

Life-Line

Life-Line

Life-Line

Life-Line

The Glory of God-Given, the Solidarity of God-Present