A Prayer of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Posted on January 19, 2026 by Daniel J. Miller

LET US PRAY: Most gracious and all wise God, before whose face the generations rise and fall; Thou in whom we live, and move, and have our being. We thank thee [for] all of thy good and gracious gifts, for life and for health; for food and for raiment; 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 [...]

Ring the Bells for All of Us

Posted on June 4, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Imagine a river. Imagine one river with interlaced channels. Like a braided river whose source, flow, and destination is Divine Love, the sacred work of becoming human and holy involves four interwoven movements that make up, what I call, The Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on February 4, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: It is not an enviable position, this Christian thing. Following Jesus is a vocation to share the fate of God for the life of the world. To allow what God for some reason allows—and uses. And to suffer ever so slightly what Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on January 28, 2019 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Nothing that exists is an island unto itself… everything that holds membership in the world is an element of a seamless garment -- the "ragged edges” of every individual reality splay off into those of another, and the Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on July 30, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: We are so addicted, either to materialism or to transcending material reality, that we don’t see God right in front of us, in the beggar, the starving child, the brokenhearted woman; in our friend; in the cat; in the flea. Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on July 23, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find. ~ Terry Tempest Williams Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on March 21, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes Read more [...]

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A Prayer of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Lectio Poetica No. 6

Ring the Bells for All of Us

Life-Line

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Life-Line

Life-Line

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