To Be Known is to Know

Posted on August 22, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Be still and know that I am God. ~ Psalm 46:10 I have always loved this line from Psalm 46. But I think it is often misunderstood. What does it mean "to know" The Holy One we too casually call God? Is God accessible to us by way of cognition, human Read more [...]

A Feather Weightier than the Daily Bombs

Posted on July 10, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

I haven't posted much of late as I'm busy writing other things. But I came across this by accident and it moved me. So, I thought I'd pass it on, in case you haven't seen it. Sometimes we find the best things in really strange places. Like on American Read more [...]

Let Us Pray with Our Eyes Open

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

"I am not interested in most conversations about equality. To whom would you like to be equal, given a broken and morally bankrupt system? Do you want to be equal to the persons, forces, and systems which generate the very terms of your oppression? I Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

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 [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Don't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n you let the humor blot out the pain. ~ Slight adaptation from Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Read more [...]

Embracing Life, Engaging Death: Part III

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Daniel J. Miller

“. . . beyond all evil is the compassion of God.” ~ Abraham Heschel “Granted, darkness, chaos, death and hell do appear, but not for a moment are they allowed to prevail …. What occurs in Mozart is rather a glorious upsetting of the balance, Read more [...]

Delighting in the Nod of God

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

Listening to the Excitement (continued) I don't know Who -- or what -- put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone --or Something --and from that hour I was certain that Read more [...]

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To Be Known is to Know

A Feather Weightier than the Daily Bombs

Let Us Pray with Our Eyes Open

Life-Line

Life-Line

Embracing Life, Engaging Death: Part III

Delighting in the Nod of God