To Be Grateful ~ A Life-line

Posted on June 4, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Note ~ This passage originally was written as prose. It comes from Merton's book Thoughts in Solitude. It's a follow up to my reflection on June 2, 2022 on Gratefulness. Today's Life-Line is: To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in Read more [...]

The Circle of Praise

Posted on February 6, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

The sacred world lifts up its head To notice— We are double, triple-blessed ~ Joy Harjo When I was growing up in Seattle, we could always tell the out-of-towners. The out-of-towners always carried umbrellas. We kids just had hats and hoods and 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 [...]

More on Praise & Musica Memento 4

Posted on November 20, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

. . . Continued from previous post.
Then the Creator formed the red earth creature*
out of the dust of the ground
and blew into the creature's nostrils the breath of life,
and the creature became a living being. ~ Gen. 2: 7
Let everything that Read more [...]

Living Through, With, and In Credible Praise

Posted on November 16, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

By the time I was in college, the Charismatic Renewal was in full swing in the Catholic Church though I had not yet been exposed to it or its more demonstrative style of worship. In addition, I was one of a handful of Catholics attending a Protestant Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is:

We learn to praise God not by paying compliments, but by paying attention. Watch how the trees exult when the wind is in them. Mark the utter stillness of the great blue heron in the swamp. Listen to the sound of the rain. Learn Read more [...]

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