The Geometry of the Christ-Life

Posted on July 5, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

Imagine a circle marked out on the ground. Suppose that this circle is the world and that the center of the circle is God. Leading from the edge to the center are a number of lines, representing ways of life. In their desire to draw near to God, the saints Read more [...]

All Saints Day

Posted on November 1, 2021 by Daniel J. Miller

It was because the saints were absorbed in God that they were truly capable of seeing and appreciating created things and it was because they loved [God] alone that they alone loved everybody. ~ Thomas Merton Read more [...]

Brother Weeps on Life as Preparation for the Great Giveaway

Posted on July 30, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

The text was the Gospel of John, chapter 12, verse 24. The words were those of Jesus. A foreshadowing of his fate. His fate not being some final, static state, feeble as nothing and dead as a cross nail, but transformed, alive, vivacious, and bearing Read more [...]

Sacrifice Means ~ To Make Holy

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But...the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him? ~ Martin Luther King, Read more [...]

The Saints and Poets, Maybe

Posted on November 4, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

A Life-Line: from ACT III (Graveyard Scene) EMILY: In a loud voice to the stage manager. I can't. I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. She breaks down sobbing, The lights dim on the left half of the Read more [...]

Celebrating the Beatituding Friends of God

Posted on November 1, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

TODAY is the Feast of All Saints. The gospel reading on this Feast Day is fixed. Every year it is the same passage: Matthew 5: 1-12a -- The Beatitudes. In 2008-2009, The Human & the Holy (H&H) community spent the better part of a year studying Read more [...]

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 5/15/18

Posted on May 15, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

The original names and numbers of all the players in this story have been kept as has the diminutive nickname of my brother who is the main character in this short tale. In those days, especially on the ball field or court, most children’s names, Read more [...]

Saints Alive!

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

I was relistening to a podcast this week in which the interviewee, Francis Weller, a psychotherapist, writer, and expert in the healing work of grief ritual, made the comment that in his work he sees two ailments that especially seem to afflict people Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: The saint is not the extraordinary doing the extraordinary ordinarily. The saint is the ordinary doing the ordinary extraordinarily. ~ Dan Miller Read more [...]

Friending God

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Daniel J. Miller

Greeting Friends of God, I feel like I should begin with “I’m baaaaaaaack,” but that sounds so ominous. Anyway, The Almond Tree is here again either for bird cage liner or personal edification or both. I might add that if you do use it for both, Read more [...]

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