Undergoing God

Posted on May 2, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

[ uhn-der-goh ] undergo — to experience, go through, endure, bear, withstand, sustain, suffer In his book The Shattered Lantern, Ronald Rolheiser asserts that one essential task of contemplation is not to make of God “something to be studied, Read more [...]

Of Kobe, Death, and the Two Mysteries

Posted on January 27, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

St. Margaret of Scotland Catholic Grade School perched on the side of a hill like a tam o shanter tilted on the head of a Scotsman on Dravis Avenue in Seattle, Washington. Mrs. Sullivan's classroom. Third grade. That's where I was on November Read more [...]

What to Do with Wonder

Posted on January 21, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Here is a Life-Line worth taking hold of: The beginning of faith is not a feeling for the mystery of living or a sense of awe, wonder or fear. The root of religion is the question what to do with the feeling for the mystery of living, what to do with Read more [...]

On the Porch of Mystery

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

A Life-Line for the week after the Feast of Epiphany (An Excerpt) Having had the privilege, as a spiritual director, of catching and holding the stories of so many extraordinarily ordinary and ordinarily extraordinary people, Read more [...]

The Action of Grace & Not Measuring the Mystery

Posted on January 4, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

ENTER INTO THE STORY, THE WATER, AND THE INCARNATION No storyteller worth his or her salt, from Jesus of Nazareth to the Bard of Avon to Toni Morrison to Tom Waits, will ever give a direct, cocksure, unambiguous answer to the question, Read more [...]

Talking Out Loud to Myself in the Humble Hope that Someone Might Overhear (2)

Posted on December 5, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

AND INSTEAD OF HAVING ME COMMITTED WILL COMMITTHEMSELVES TO DIVING DEEPER INTO THE MYSTERY ~ An Inner View Disguised as an Interview ~ No. 2. . . continued from December 3, 2019 MYSELF: I’d like to pick up where we left off. Read more [...]

AJH on Praise

Posted on November 23, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

I want to follow up my comments of November 16 with some thoughts of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907 – 1972) on praise. An apologist for wonder, Heschel has much to say about its fruition. Rabbi Heschel maintains that wonder, what he Read more [...]

The Mystery of Divine Love ~ A Life-Line

Posted on August 6, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is:
There is suffering in human life and we do not know why it should be. Some we can see as the result of the gift of human freedom. Some we can see as the result of the forces of nature. Some is utterly inscrutable, with an apparent Read more [...]

It Is So Embarrassing to Live

Posted on July 17, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

~ continued from the previous two posts

"To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments. Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. Read more [...]

Only One Response Can Maintain Us

Posted on July 14, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Years ago the magazine Christian Century used to a have a one page feature that I enjoyed. For each issue an invited theologian was asked to choose a favorite poem which was displayed followed by a statement of maybe a hundred or hundred-fifty words Read more [...]

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