The Ridiculous Love of God

Posted on March 3, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

What good is it to believe in a merciful, forgiving God if we are not able or willing to forgive ourselves? Sister Helen Prejean who has given years of her life to accompanying inmates on death row—some who have committed atrocious crimes—reminds Read more [...]

Compassion — The Index of Our Humanity

Posted on March 5, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

To be a man or woman of compassion is to be present to those in pain in such a way that they feel safe enough, if they choose, to reveal their wound to us. Then after reverently receiving their storied-pain, we reverently reach out to touch them, at times Read more [...]

Musica Memento 3

Posted on October 28, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly, to love kindly, and to walk humbly with your God. ~ Micah 6:8 The vision, essence, and life pattern that characterize what it means to be a Christian are perhaps most succinctly and clearly Read more [...]

What You Are in Love with Affects Everything ~ A Life-Line

Posted on August 12, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Let me be clear about this final point, which hinges on faith’s grasp of a gratuitous, merciful, healing presence even amid the storms of life. For Christians of every color, solidarity with the stranger and the option of the Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 9/25/18

Posted on September 25, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

I have used the story below in a variety of settings and contexts since 1999 when I first read it in the Jesuit Review America Magazine. It is based on a real life experience and, as it turns out, is a contemporary rendering of a very old, and very Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

~ Friends, in case you haven't noticed, I have taken a temporary hiatus from posting any writings. For now, I will keep offering Life-Lines on Mondays and TUESDAYS WITH STORY each week. Keep checking, I will be posting essays and reflections before Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 5/1/18

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

The Power of the Powerless For about 35 years I have had the pleasure of going on retreat at Weston Priory. Tucked into the Green Mountains of Vermont, it is the home of a small community of Benedictine monks. I have gone with family, friends, and Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 2, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The outstretched arms of Christ on the cross hold and take with him to death everything that is wrong in the world, everything that is awry in us, every contradiction of how things are supposed to be, every violation of our own Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Our greatest privilege is also our greatest responsibility. Not only to seek and to find the treasure hidden in the field but to uncover and reveal all those other places where the Divine is hiding in our midst and longing Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 24, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The voice of God is heard in Paradise: “What was vile has become precious. What is now precious was never vile. I have always known the vile as precious: for what is vile I know not at all. "What was cruel has become merciful. Read more [...]

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The Ridiculous Love of God

Compassion — The Index of Our Humanity

Musica Memento 3

What You Are in Love with Affects Everything ~ A Life-Line

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 9/25/18

Life-Line

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 5/1/18

Life-Line

Life-Line

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