A New Serenity Prayer

Posted on April 12, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

Hump Wednesday — I saw the Roches in Princeton in the 1980's and loved them—their harmonies, humor, and sass. Terre Roche teams up with Fr. James Martin SJ for a NEW SERENITY PRAYER. Sometimes what is lacking in prayer is a wee bit of levity. We Read more [...]

Second Wednesday of Lent — Setting the Alarm

Posted on March 8, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

Fasting and abstinence are ancient practices integral to a multitude of religions. Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, and Jainism all practice some form of fasting and abstinence. Athletes and actors are commonly fasting or abstaining. Read more [...]

ADVENT—ure No. 2 (2022)

Posted on December 1, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Be still and know that I am God. ~ Psalm 46:10 Advent: the time to listen for footsteps – you can’t hear footsteps when you’re running yourself. ~ Bill McKibben It is the nature of each and all metaphors to work and not work. When we said Read more [...]

A Prayer of the Heart

Posted on November 18, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

You, for whom we have so many names, You, for whom no name will do, help us learn to live into the name that you have stitched on the inside of our heart, the name that only you know and whisper to us like a lover in the night. Open the ears Read more [...]

Four for St. Francis ~ October 4th

Posted on October 4, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Today is the Feast of the little poor man from Assisi who was a counter-sign in numerous ways to the dominant culture of his day and no less so for our time. Be praised, my Lord, through our sister Mother Earth, who feeds us and rules us, and produces Read more [...]

Do as the Flowers Do

Posted on September 29, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

All of us, gazing with unveiled face on the glory of the Holy One, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as from the Holy One who is the Spirit. 2 Cor. 3:18 Years ago, when I worked at The Center for Spiritual Development Read more [...]

Brother Weeps and the Do-Si-Do

Posted on July 3, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Advice Someone dancing inside us learned only a few steps: the "Do-Your-Work" in 4/4 time. the "What-Do-You-Expect" waltz. He hasn't noticed yet the woman standing away from the lamp, the one with dark eyes who knows the rhumba and strange Read more [...]

What, Goodpeople, Are We to Do? ~ No. 1

Posted on March 26, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

PART 1 of 2 Everything terrifying is, in its deepest being, something helpless that wants our help. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke What makes loneliness an anguish Is not that I have no one to share my burden, But this: I have only my own burden to bear. ~ Read more [...]

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 [...]

The Only Sensible Thing to Do

Posted on October 11, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

Over time I've learned the first expression of prayer is the child's wonder. And once they get their first taste of wonder they pray more and more and more. As children grow up and become adults they seem to pray less and less and Read more [...]

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