The Public Danger of a Lack of Self-Understanding

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

A prophet is not a fortuneteller. But they do often seem prescient or years ahead of their time. This has little to do with being able to see down the road and much to do with being prayerfully self-reflective and with seeing things from a divine perspective. Read more [...]

John Lewis, February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020, R.I.P.

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

“I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on November 12, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

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 [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 8/28/18

Posted on August 28, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

There is a famous though likely apocryphal story of Ernest Hemingway wagering that he could write a story in six words. As one telling goes, he responded to his disbelieving takers with a six-word story that, indeed, had a beginning, a middle, and Read more [...]

Raymond “Dutch” Hunthausen – (1921 – 2018) R.I.P.

Posted on July 23, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

I've been out all day and so I am only now hearing from friends that Archbishop Raymond "Dutch" Hunthausen died yesterday. He was 96. What a great man -- he was humble, pastoral, an attentive listener, about as unpretentious as any church leader I Read more [...]

The Truth that Matters ~ A Life-Line

Posted on January 8, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. ~ Albert Einstein Read more [...]

Life-Line + 1

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Lines are: If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. ~ Marcus Aurelius Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. ~ Albert Einstein Cross Reference: Lk. Read more [...]

Three Gates, The Donald, and How the Sap Rises

Posted on June 3, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

A sage once said--- some insist it was Buddha, some say Rumi, others Beth Day or Mary Ann Pietzker or the Quakers or Sai Baba or Eleanor Roosevelt or their grandmother. It doesn’t much matter who--- that Before you speak, your words must pass through Read more [...]

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