Being Human — Being Moved

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It is that simple. What you see is Read more [...]

The Glad Surprise

Posted on March 13, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Being a Seattle-boy and a Northwesterner at heart this bright, sunny, golden brown land of southern California sometimes isn’t my cup of coffee. “Deep greens and blues are the colors I choose” and so after a number of unusual rains this winter I Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on March 13, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Such love does the sky now pour, that whenever I stand in a field, I have to wring out the light when I get home. ~ St. Francis of Assisi Read more [...]

Prayer: Making Friends with the Habit of Listening

Posted on March 11, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

I was very taken the other day with Krista Tippet’s interview of Pádraig Ó Tuama, poet, theologian, and leader of the Corrymeela community in Northern Ireland which has been a place of refuge, reconciliation, and healing "in the years since the Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on March 6, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: If, in my own life, there has been “good purpose” in living with AIDS, it has been this: I have learned, repeatedly, that we experience satisfaction and purpose in our lives when we do something kind and caring for others. Read more [...]

The Categorical Imperative

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

The glory of God is the human person fully alive, and the life of the human is the vision of God. ~ St. Irenaeus of Lyons You shall lovingly accept the humanity entrusted to you! You shall be obedient to your destiny! You shall not continually try Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree. ~ W. S. Merwin Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: To bless is to put a bit of yourself into something. It is to make holy, to change something or someone because of your presence. ~ Macrina Wiederkehr Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Truly! Truly! By God! By God! Be as sure of it as you are that God lives: at the least good deed done here in this world, the least bit of good will, the least good desire, all the saints in heaven and on earth rejoice, and together Read more [...]

Life-Line

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: Faith is living in uncertainty without despairing. ~ John S. Dunne Read more [...]

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Being Human — Being Moved

The Glad Surprise

Life-Line

Prayer: Making Friends with the Habit of Listening

Life-Line

The Categorical Imperative

Life-Line

Life-Line

Life-Line

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