Cummings Continued

Posted on May 19, 2024 by Daniel J. Miller

Following the previous post of E.E. Cummings' poem-prayer "i thank You God for most," I thought I'd post another poem I mentioned there. I do so in the spirit of Dostoevsky's Prince Myshkin's by-now famous statement, "I believe the world will be saved Read more [...]

Easter 2023 in Poetry & Song

Posted on April 8, 2023 by Daniel J. Miller

Friends of The Sacred Braid and readers of THE ALMOND TREE, the author of the Song of Songs writes: "See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come." And the song of spring we sing is Read more [...]

Learning to Deal with Death

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Friday of the Third Week of Easter Today's Life-Line is: Easter? We focus more on dying than on death. How we deal with dying is more important to us than how we conquer death. [...] Learning to deal with dying, however, does not yet mean we Read more [...]

Resurrection: An Embodied Truth

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

“(Christians) would have to sing better songs for me to believe in their Savior: his disciples would have to look more redeemed.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche “Touché! Point well taken.” ~ Dan Miller Ever since a few women friends of Jesus went to Read more [...]

To Be Spun as Christ was Spun

Posted on October 21, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Tuesday of Holy Week Today's Life-Line: How do we live by faith, in love, with hope, in the face of the incompatibility of the luminous mystery and the sorrowful mystery of human existence? How do we live responsibly while fully Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Oscar Romero was the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador. He served from February 1977 until March of 1980 when he was assassinated. A studious, humble, and conservative priest, Romero had disappointed the ruling oligarchy of El Salvador by Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: There are many wise, inspiring, and challenging statements from the treasury of words written and spoken by Oscar Romero who was canonized a saint yesterday by Pope Francis. Here are just three. A church that does not provoke Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 2, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The outstretched arms of Christ on the cross hold and take with him to death everything that is wrong in the world, everything that is awry in us, every contradiction of how things are supposed to be, every violation of our own Read more [...]

Easter ~ The Season of Singing Has Come

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land. The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Resurrection is not a consoling opium, soothing us with the promise of a better world in the hereafter. It is the energy for a rebirth of this life. The hope doesn’t point to another world. It is focused on the redemption of Read more [...]

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Cummings Continued

Easter 2023 in Poetry & Song

Learning to Deal with Death

Resurrection: An Embodied Truth

To Be Spun as Christ was Spun

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Easter ~ The Season of Singing Has Come

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