What, Goodpeople, Are We to Do? No. 2

Posted on March 28, 2022 by Daniel J. Miller

PART 2 of 2 You have to develop your imagination to the point that permits sympathy to happen. You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours or the lives of your loved ones or the lives of your neighbors. You have to have at least enough 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 4 for The Season of Creation*

Posted on September 13, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

LECTIO POETICA If you have not read the explanation for Lectio Poetica, I encourage you to read it here before reading Berry’s poem below. The Wild Geese Horseback on Sunday morning, harvest over, we taste persimmon and wild grape, sharp sweet of Read more [...]

Lectio Poetica No. 7 ~ Earth Day Poem

Posted on April 22, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. ~ Wendell Berry There are three aspects of nature which command humankind's attention: power, loveliness, grandeur. Power we exploit, loveliness we enjoy, grandeur Read more [...]

Lectio Poetica No. 6

Posted on April 18, 2020 by Daniel J. Miller

Wendell Berry's poem "The Peace of Wild Things" seems timely. For those of you who would like to use Berry's poem for prayerful reflection, I invite you first to read the description of Lectio Poetica HERE. The Peace of Wild Things When despair Read more [...]

A Purification ~ A Life-Line

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: A Purification At start of spring I open a trench in the ground. I put into it the winter’s accumulation of paper, pages I do not want to read again, useless words, fragments, errors. And I put into it the contents Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on April 8, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: If deadly violence can in fact stop deadly violence, then why has deadly violence not stopped? ~ Wendell Berry 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

A Word to the Wise — Kindness

Posted on July 31, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Kindness [kahynd-nis] “What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver “The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with Read more [...]

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What, Goodpeople, Are We to Do? No. 2

Reverence: An Offering of Love – Part 1/4

The Imperative of Reverence in Sacrilegious Times

Poem 4 for The Season of Creation*

Lectio Poetica No. 7 ~ Earth Day Poem

Lectio Poetica No. 6

A Purification ~ A Life-Line

Life-Line

Life-Line

A Word to the Wise — Kindness