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Life-Line

Posted on December 10, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: God has always been coming. . . God is always coming because God is life, and life has the unbridled force of creation. God comes because God is light, and light may not remain hidden. God comes because God is love, and Read more [...]
Posted in Advent & Christmas | Tagged Beholding, Carlo Carretto, Earth, God, Sky | Leave a reply

Life-Line

Posted on November 12, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: A person who debases himself, a malicious man with a forked tongue saying one thing then the other, winking smugly with his eyes, walking his crooked talk, pointing accusingly with his finger, devising evil with his Read more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Deceit, Evil, God, Hypocrisy, Integrity, Lying, Proverbs | Leave a reply

Life-Line

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: There are many wise, inspiring, and challenging statements from the treasury of words written and spoken by Oscar Romero who was canonized a saint yesterday by Pope Francis. Here are just three. A church that does not provoke Read more [...]
Posted in Saints | Tagged Anawim, Beatitudes, Church, God, Gospel, Injustice, Jesus, Justice, Oscar Romero, Preaching, Resurrection, The Poor | 1 Reply

Life-Line

Posted on September 24, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: To let God be God means to undergo the presence of God as a tree undergoes the presence of summer. . . .{A] tree is brought to bloom by summer. It does not capture summer, understand summer, conceptualize summer, nor is it even Read more [...]
Posted in God | Tagged Being Present, God, Ronald Rolheiser | Leave a reply

Life-Line

Posted on August 27, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we will have to do what we can with the third. ~ Aubrey Menen, from Rama Retold, a modern retelling of Read more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Being Human, God, Laughter | Leave a reply

Life-Line

Posted on July 30, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: We are so addicted, either to materialism or to transcending material reality, that we don’t see God right in front of us, in the beggar, the starving child, the brokenhearted woman; in our friend; in the cat; in the flea. Read more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Andrew Harvey, God, Seeing, World | 1 Reply

Life-Line

Posted on July 2, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: What does the Lord require of you? To act justly, to love kindly, and to walk humbly with your God. ~ Micah 6:8 Read more [...]
Posted in Faith | Tagged God, Humility, Justice, Kindness, Love | Leave a reply

Life-Line

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: This is what I have learned: that what the wise ones discover, what some, though not all, of those who have been tenderized by life understand, what those who have awakened from the long night into the light of day come to see, Read more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Awakening, Being Present, Friends of God, Gift, God, Wisdom | Leave a reply

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 4/17/18

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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"Faith is a blush in the presence of God." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel WATER INTO WINE A century ago, a young student at the great Oxford University in England was taking an important examination in religious studies. The examination question for this Read more [...]
Posted in Story | Tagged Abraham Heschel, Awe, Christ, Faith, God, Jack Kornfield, Miracle | Leave a reply

Life-Line

Posted on April 16, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: It is a sad day for our country when we trade the majestic, hope-filled symbolism of the Statue of Liberty for an ineffective and grotesque wall which both displays and inflames the ethnic and cultural divisions that have long Read more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Compassion, Freedom, God, Hospitality, Immigration, Justice, Works of Mercy | 1 Reply

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