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Advent – A Poem

Posted on December 13, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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ADVENT It is not true that creation and the human family are doomed to destruction and loss -- This is true: For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life. It Read more [...]
Posted in Advent & Christmas | Tagged Advent, Daniel Berrigan, Hope, Human Dignity, Jesus, Justice, Peace | 1 Reply

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 12/11/18

Posted on December 11, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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G. K. Chesterton once commented that our perennial spiritual and psychological task is to learn to look at things familiar until they become unfamiliar again. The same thing is true of stories as well. The temptation is to quickly think, "I've heard Read more [...]
Posted in Scripture | Tagged Conversion, G. K. Chesterton, Jesus, Justice, Salvation, Seeking, Zacchaeus | 1 Reply

Life-Line

Posted on December 10, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: God has always been coming. . . God is always coming because God is life, and life has the unbridled force of creation. God comes because God is light, and light may not remain hidden. God comes because God is love, and Read more [...]
Posted in Advent & Christmas | Tagged Beholding, Carlo Carretto, Earth, God, Sky | Leave a reply

Life-Line

Posted on December 3, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is" TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this Read more [...]
Posted in Hope | Tagged Compassion, Courage, Hope, Howard Zinn, Kindness, Sacrifice | 1 Reply

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 11/27/18

Posted on November 27, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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Recently I was thumbing through an old notebook of mine that included, among other tidbits, a list of stories that I had used in homilies twenty-five years ago. The story that follows caught my eye, maybe because when I was growing up one of our family Read more [...]
Posted in Story | Tagged Agony, Feeding, Heaven, Heaven and Earth, Hell, Joy, Service | 2 Replies

Life-Line

Posted on November 26, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: The whole process of coming to wholeness through being willing to take the learnings of the past to the challenges of the present shrivels in the face of denial. In the traditional view, struggle required one of two things: Read more [...]
Posted in Transformation | Tagged Change, Conversion, Joan Chittister, Struggle, Transformation, Wholeness | Leave a reply

What Goes Around Comes Around and Goes Around . . .

Posted on November 22, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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"No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night." ~ Elie Wiesel "Thanking is a true understanding of who we really are." ~ Julian of Norwich The opposite of take is give. The opposite of to take for granted is Read more [...]
Posted in Gratefulness | Tagged Abraham Heschel, Compassion, Giving Thanks | 4 Replies

Life-Line

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: There may be times when, unprepared, we are struck with wonder, yet it is up to us to keep the spirit of wonder alive. Like love, wonder is both an effortless happening and the result of constant effort. We fall in love and Read more [...]
Posted in Wonder & Awe | Tagged Awe, John Merkle, Love, Wonder, Work | 1 Reply

TUESDAYS WITH STORY – 11/13/18

Posted on November 13, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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"Stories give coherence to the confusion of our experience." ~ Karen Armstrong THE SEED OF COMPASSION  “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. . . This is the interrelated structure of reality.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. There Read more [...]
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Life-Line

Posted on November 12, 2018 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: A person who debases himself, a malicious man with a forked tongue saying one thing then the other, winking smugly with his eyes, walking his crooked talk, pointing accusingly with his finger, devising evil with his Read more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Deceit, Evil, God, Hypocrisy, Integrity, Lying, Proverbs | Leave a reply

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  • The Song That Refuses to Sing
  • A Word to the Wise – Kindness
  • To Bless and Be Blessed
  • Listening to the Wind in the Wheat: A Meditation on the Eucharist
  • Being Human—Being Moved
  • In Gratitude for the Wild and Precious Life of Mary Oliver
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