Show Me Something Unbeautiful ~ A Life-Line

Posted on December 29, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: It is dawn. The sun is conquering the sky and my grandmother and I are heaving prayers at the horizon. “Show me something unbeautiful,” she says, “and I will show you the veil over your eyes and take it away. And Read more [...]

Lectio Poetica No. 11 When I Was the Forest

Posted on July 14, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

For a write-up on Lectio Poetica click HERE. When I Was the Forest When I was the stream, when I was the forest, when I was still the field, when I was every hoof, foot, fin and wing, when I was the sky itself, no one ever asked me Read more [...]

Hangin’ with Hafiz

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky. ~ Hafiz ♣ GOODPEOPLE ♣ ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SPIRITUAL DIRECTION ONLINE? Would Read more [...]

Lectio Poetica No. 10

Posted on April 6, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

We read Lectio under the eye of God Meditatio until the heart is touched Oratio and leaps into flame. Contemplatio ~ Dom Marmion For a write-up on Read more [...]

Nature’s Power to Mirror

Posted on March 27, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

We must first honor and cherish all creation as an expression or mirror of the Divine Beauty. "This, then, is salvation, when we marvel at the beauty of created things and praise the beautiful providence of their Creator," wrote Meister Eckhart. ~ Read more [...]

Absolute Attention is Prayer

Posted on March 17, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Simone Weil says, “Absolute attention is prayer.” And the more I have thought about this over the years, the truer it is for me. I have used the sentence often in talking about poetry to students, to suggest that if one Read more [...]

Each of Us is Responsible for the Care of This Family

Posted on December 27, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Because all creatures are connected, each must be cherished with love and respect, for all of us as living creatures are dependent on one another. Each area is responsible for the care of this family. ~ (Laudato Si’, 42). Today, in Catholic and Read more [...]

Lectio Poetica No. 9

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Miracles ~Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along Read more [...]

Poem 7 for the Season of Creation*

Posted on September 29, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

OUT CAMPING Today comes walking over the water in the early morning. A bird scribes the skin of the lake. Everything trembles. Ours is the world of the swallow wing, a scene turning and curving, and we are in it, scribing our own reflection of Read more [...]

Poem 6 for the Season of Creation*

Posted on September 24, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

LECTIO POETICA If you have not read the explanation for Lectio Poetica, I encourage you to read it here before reading Oliver’s poem below. SNOW GEESE Oh, to love what is lovely, and will not last! What a task to ask of anything, or anyone, yet Read more [...]

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