Happy Meal or Risky Meal?

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Much as Baptism has lost almost all of its original sense of danger and risk evoked by references to drowning and the baptismal font being shaped like a coffin, womb, or cross, so too in many Christian communities the celebration of the Eucharist has Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on August 8, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total — but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial . . . ‘Of Read more [...]

Let Us Bow Our Heads and Remember

Posted on August 6, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

“So, let us be alert in a twofold sense: Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.” ~ Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning Read more [...]

A Non-Traditional Blessing

Posted on July 22, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Two weeks ago I posted a prayer here that I thought fitting given the senseless violence that was spreading throughout American cities. I had been familiar with versions of this prayer for many years but never knew the author. As I mentioned at the bottom Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on July 21, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today’s Life-Line is: Ultimately we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world. ~ Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on June 13, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Anyone can love peace, but Jesus doesn't say, "Blessed are the peacelovers." He says "peacemakers." He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life. And he means a vocation that includes risk. . . The Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Our Father, Mother, who are in the world and surpass the world, blessed by your presence, in us, in animals and flowers, in still air and wind. May justice and peace dwell among us as you come to us. Your will be our will. You Read more [...]

A Poem for These Days

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests Read more [...]

The Samurai and the Monk

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be conceited. Repay no one evil for evil, Read more [...]

Be Holy

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

Many times when teaching people the practice of lectio divina (meditatively praying with scripture), I have quipped, “Start with the Psalms or maybe one of the gospels. You probably want to stay away from Leviticus.” By the comment I meant to suggest Read more [...]

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Tag Archives: Peace

Happy Meal or Risky Meal?

Life-Line

Let Us Bow Our Heads and Remember

A Non-Traditional Blessing

Life-Line

Life-Line

Life-Line

A Poem for These Days

The Samurai and the Monk

Be Holy