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The More I Wonder ~ A Life-Line

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big Read more [...]
Posted in Wonder & Awe | Tagged Alice Walker, Love, Question, Wonder | Leave a reply

The Unbecoming of God & the Incarnation of Love

Posted on December 25, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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Grant, we pray, that we may share in the divinity of Christ who humbled himself to share in our humanity. from the Collect for The Nativity of the Lord At the Mass of the Day The mystery of the incarnation we celebrate at Christmas, no less than Read more [...]
Posted in Advent & Christmas | Tagged Anawim, Christmas, Emmanuel, Incarnation, Love, Soren Kierkegaard, Withness | 4 Replies

Life-Line

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: Six months ago I walked across Spain. Five hundred miles. Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. . . I saw my life. The Camino was my life. My life compressed to forty days and forty nights. A Read more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Beauty, Brian Zahnd, Camino, God, Joy, Kindness, Learning, Love, Pain, Pilgrimage | Leave a reply

Life-Line

Posted on September 11, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: We must bless without wanting to manipulate. Without insisting that everything be straightened out right now. Without insisting that our truth be known. This means simply turning whoever it is we need to bless over to God, knowing Read more [...]
Posted in Blessing | Tagged Blessing, God, Love, Madeleine L'Engle, Spiritual Practice | 2 Replies

Life-Line

Posted on September 4, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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(LABOR DAY) Today's Life-Line is: Messenger              by Mary Oliver My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird--- equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here Read more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Gratefulness, Joy, Love, Mary Oliver, Nature, Wild Life, Wonder, Work | Leave a reply

Life-Line

Posted on August 14, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to Read more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Hate, Love, Racism | Leave a reply

For Mothering Love

Posted on May 14, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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In gratitude for mothering love offered by women who have birthed, nurtured, and sustained life whether in the physical offspring of children cared for and encouraged or in the progeny of integrity, kindness, creativity, and compassion. In Read more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Gratefulness, Love, Mothering | 1 Reply

Life-Line

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: Resurrection is not a consoling opium, soothing us with the promise of a better world in the hereafter. It is the energy for a rebirth of this life. The hope doesn’t point to another world. It is focused on the redemption of Read more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Hope, Liberation, Love, Resurrection | Leave a reply

Easter Sunday– for Joy!

Posted on April 16, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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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 [...]
Posted in Lent & Easter, Uncategorized | Tagged Amazement, Easter, God, Gratefulness, Human Being, Life, Love | Leave a reply

The Authority of Love

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller
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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 [...]
Posted in Love | Tagged Becoming Human, Brother David Steindl-Rast, Christ-ening, Christ-life, God, Love | 2 Replies

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Sample of Writings

  • What a Christian Looks Like
  • The Life of Sigh
  • The Song That Refuses to Sing
  • A Word to the Wise – Kindness
  • To Bless and Be Blessed
  • Listening to the Wind in the Wheat: A Meditation on the Eucharist
  • Being Human—Being Moved
  • In Gratitude for the Wild and Precious Life of Mary Oliver
  • TheGift Who Was Claire Wineland

Sayings of Brother Weeps

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  • Brother Weeps on the Withness of God
  • Brother Weeps, the Hermit and His Dogs
  • Brother Weeps Speaks on Silence
  • Brother Weeps Drives Up a Hill
  • Brother Weeps and the Do-Si-Do

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