A Prayer by Howard Thurman

Posted on January 27, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

"Saying prayers" has gotten a lot of bad press over the last five decades from those who presume incorrectly that extemporaneous prayers are more personal, heartfelt, better, or more pleasing to God than memorized prayers. Maybe, maybe not. Sometimes, Read more [...]

The Work of Christmas Begins – (Again)

Posted on December 30, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

I posted Howard Thurman's famous poem "The Work of Christmas" in 2014 and 2016. Keeping with my every other year pattern, I post it yet again. It would be worth your time to listen to Dan Forest's beautiful choral arrangement. The words of the text are Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: On one of our visits to Daytona Beach I was eager to show my daughters some of my earlier haunts. We sauntered down the long street from the church to the riverfront. This had been the path of the procession to the baptismal Read more [...]

BTW — Christmas Implicates Us

Posted on December 30, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

It is important, not incidental, to remember that, like Advent, Christmas is a season. Still preserved in monastic communities and in the anomalous local church, the awareness of and participation in the twelve days of Christmas that are laid out like Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on December 26, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone, When the kings and princes are home, When the shepherds are back with their flock, The work of Christmas begins: To find the lost, To heal the broken, To Read more [...]

The Work of Christmas

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone, When the kings and princes are home, When the shepherds are back with their flocks, The work of Christmas begins: To find the lost, To heal the broken, To feed the hungry, To Read more [...]

Three Poems for Christmas

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Madeleine L'Engle (November 29, 1918 – September 6, 2007) was an American author best known for her young adult classic and Newberry Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time. Also widely read were its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Read more [...]

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Tag Archives: Howard Thurman

A Prayer by Howard Thurman

The Work of Christmas Begins – (Again)

Life-Line

BTW — Christmas Implicates Us

Life-Line

The Work of Christmas

Three Poems for Christmas