Life-Line

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: ”Even in the pit of hell, it’s a mitzvah to be joyful.” So said Rabbi Nachman of Bretslov, a mystic in the Hasidic tradition. A mitzvah is an act that honors the Divine. Even in hell, it is possible to be joyful, because Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: On one of our visits to Daytona Beach I was eager to show my daughters some of my earlier haunts. We sauntered down the long street from the church to the riverfront. This had been the path of the procession to the baptismal Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on September 18, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Late Fragment And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. ~ Raymond Carver Read more [...]

Pensées: Notes for Talks

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Pray to be able to greet death like a companion or a trusted friend waiting on the bank of the other shore who reaches out to you and helps you manage the last slippery stones of a rushing stream as you step safely across from life to new life. The Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on September 11, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: We must bless without wanting to manipulate. Without insisting that everything be straightened out right now. Without insisting that our truth be known. This means simply turning whoever it is we need to bless over to God, knowing Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on September 4, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

(LABOR DAY) Today's Life-Line is: Messenger by Mary Oliver My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird--- equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: People say that what we're seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. ~ Read more [...]

Holy Communion

Posted on August 27, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

When a beggar asks for food is God not bread, or the one who gives it, for the one who needs it? Does not the unfortunate woman say “God bless you” as you turn and go your fortunate way? And if you are the one who gives it today after leaving the Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with a man does to marrying him. It's completely different. ~ Annie Dillard Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on August 14, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to Read more [...]

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