Passion

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

This week I will dip into the Archives and offer a reflection each day leading up to Easter. Today and tomorrow’s reflections are from 2014 when the theme for The Human & the Holy spiritual formation community (H&H) that I lead was “Embracing Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise — Amateur

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Amateur [am-uh-choo r] This week’s word is amateur. Would you rather know what you are doing or love what you are doing? It depends. No, that’s not a response. You have to choose. Would you rather know what you are doing or love what you are Read more [...]

A Rendezvous with Love

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Daniel J. Miller

"I'm letting God love me." ~ Archbishop Raymnd Hunthausen To be loved, to open oneself to receive love, makes us capable of loving others. More and more I realize the need for us to understand prayer as a rendezvous with love, as the receiving and Read more [...]

The Second and Third Aspects of Love

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Daniel J. Miller

On the Human Person The second aspect of love according to what Vanier has learned living in L’Arche communities, is the call to understand. The world often seems saturated with judgment and seriously lacking in understanding. What’s worse is that Read more [...]

How’s Your Love Life?

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Daniel J. Miller

Ash Wednesday Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD, your God, For God is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love, and relenting in punishment Read more [...]

Embracing Life, Engaging Death: Part VI

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

“How should we live in a way which is compatible with our being a likeness of God?” ~ Abraham Joshau Heschel “Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love.” ~ John of the Cross “Tell me how much you know of the sufferings Read more [...]

Embracing Life, Engaging Death: Part V

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

passion [pash-uh n] Strong amorous feeling or desire; love; ardor. The sufferings of Christ from the Last Supper to his death on the cross. The Passionate Life The wise ones from all wisdom traditions know that authentic spirituality Read more [...]

The Practices of Lent continued

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

Part IV Fasting continued The second type of fasting involves refraining from those things that are detrimental or destructive to oneself or others, anything that prevents us or others from engaging fully in the gift of life and its call to flourish. Read more [...]

Litmus Test: Enlivening & Loving

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly, ~ John 10:10 Religion fails, at the personal, ecclesial, social, and cosmic level, whenever it fails to cultivate, encourage, and engender among its practitioners life and love. Certainly from Read more [...]

Participating in the Exchange of Love

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and God’s love is perfected in us. . . .God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides Read more [...]

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