Reverence: An Offering of Love – Part 2/4

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

~ continued from yesterday (since this is written as a conversation, you may want to hit "previous" and read the last paragraph or two) When we walk on the earth with reverence, beauty will decide to trust us. ~ John O'Donohue Authentic faith leads Read more [...]

Reverence: An Offering of Love – Part 1/4

Posted on January 2, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

NOTE: The preface to these next four reflections can be found in the second half of a post from December 13, 2020 titled "The Imperative of Reverence in Sacrilegious Times" which can be found ♦HERE. NOTE TO SELF: When you are preaching, remember Read more [...]

The Imperative of Reverence in Sacrilegious Times

Posted on December 13, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

To revere another is to behold their indigenous sacredness and to stand in awe before the One in whom they live and move and have their being. ~ Dan Miller Human being is either coming into meaning or betraying it.~ Abraham Heschel Yesterday, Read more [...]

Poem 2 for The Season of Creation*

Posted on September 7, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Reverence The air vibrated with the sound of cicadas on those hot Missouri nights after sundown when the grown-ups gathered on the wide back lawn, sank into their slung-back canvas chairs tall glasses of iced tea beading in the heat and we sisters Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 3/27/18

Posted on March 27, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

The country and world we live in suffer from a REVERENCE deficiency. For this reason I offer you the following story. The Rabbi's Gift There was a famous monastery which had fallen on hard times. Formerly its many buildings were filled with Read more [...]

Wonder and the Antiphonal Nature of Life

Posted on June 30, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

A Reflection in Three Parts Part Three I’m a soul in wonder. ~ Van Morrison In the place where wonder comes from, there I find you. ~ Bruce Cockburn Out of the mouth of babes. ~ Some former babe Every person, every couple, every family Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on May 22, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

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There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places and desecrated places.

~ Wendell Berry

Three Gates, The Donald, and How the Sap Rises

Posted on June 3, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

A sage once said--- some insist it was Buddha, some say Rumi, others Beth Day or Mary Ann Pietzker or the Quakers or Sai Baba or Eleanor Roosevelt or their grandmother. It doesn’t much matter who--- that Before you speak, your words must pass through Read more [...]

Asking Permission to “Be” Once Again

Posted on May 28, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

I have been reading Matthew Fox’s new book A Way to God: Thomas Merton’s Creation Spirituality Journey courtesy of a long-time member of The Human & the Holy spiritual formation community. Merton, one of the most important spiritual writers Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last Read more [...]

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Tag Archives: Reverence

Reverence: An Offering of Love – Part 2/4

Reverence: An Offering of Love – Part 1/4

The Imperative of Reverence in Sacrilegious Times

Poem 2 for The Season of Creation*

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 3/27/18

Wonder and the Antiphonal Nature of Life

Life-Line

Three Gates, The Donald, and How the Sap Rises

Asking Permission to “Be” Once Again

Life-Line