ADVENT—ure No. 2 (2022)

Posted on December 1, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Be still and know that I am God. ~ Psalm 46:10 Advent: the time to listen for footsteps – you can’t hear footsteps when you’re running yourself. ~ Bill McKibben It is the nature of each and all metaphors to work and not work. When we said Read more [...]

Listening for the Questions that Are Not Meant to Go Away

Posted on June 6, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked. And there is a far worse anxiety, a far worse insecurity, which comes from being afraid to ask the right Read more [...]

Only Our Heart

Posted on February 14, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. ~ Blaise Pascal Our eyes see, but only our heart looks through things to their meaning. Our nose registers scents, but only our heart will track like a hound its ethereal quarry. Our tongue Read more [...]

All Creation is Waiting

Posted on December 3, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

ADVENT is a Time of Waiting and all creation, not merely humans, wait and yearn for the day when shalom and shalem embrace and together become the stillness within the song and the song within the stillness that bring healing and jubilation at last to Read more [...]

Poem 3 for The Season of Creation*

Posted on September 10, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

This is a wonderful poem for the extended moment we are all living in. David Wagoner's poem below begs to be read slowly and contemplatively. I have purposely double-spaced the lines to help with that. If you have not read the explanation for Lectio Poetica, Read more [...]

Let Us Pray with Our Eyes Open

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

"I am not interested in most conversations about equality. To whom would you like to be equal, given a broken and morally bankrupt system? Do you want to be equal to the persons, forces, and systems which generate the very terms of your oppression? I Read more [...]

When I Walk in the Woods and Fields ~ Found Poem 1

Posted on October 8, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

The Academy of American Poets defines a Found Poem as follows: "Found poems take existing texts and refashion them, reorder them, and present them as poems. The literary equivalent of a collage, found poetry is often made from newspaper articles, street Read more [...]

Willingness to Be Attentive

Posted on July 21, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

This Mary Oliver poem always reminds me of the first reading from today's Sunday liturgy (posted below) about Abraham and Sarah welcoming the three strangers. MOCKINGBIRDS This morning two mockingbirds in the green field were spinning Read more [...]

On Story ~ TUESDAYS WITH STORY — 2/6/18

Posted on February 6, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Like you, I come from a family of storytellers. My guess is that is not a presumptuous sentence. We all have stories. In my family there were stories told so often they are indelibly etched in my brain. Stories so real that for years my father’s childhood Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: American culture devalues silence. “Be quiet!” “Shut up!” “Children are meant to be seen, not heard,” all belie an underlying antipathy toward silence. Public and parochial schools offer courses in speech and communication. Read more [...]

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