The Sacred Braid

Helping Persons and Communities Weave Lives of Spiritual Depth.

Main menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • Home
  • About
    • About The Sacred Braid
    • About Dan Miller
    • What People Are Saying About Dan
  • Programs
    • About the Programs
    • Parish Missions
    • What People Are Saying About Dan’s Parish Missions
    • Presentations and Retreats
      • Living Advent, Living Lent
      • Living Deeply and Fully
      • Living Contemplatively and Prayerfully
      • Living Through Difficult Times
      • Living Wisdom of Soul Guides
      • Living the Liturgy of Life
      • Living Compassionately
      • Living in Kinship with the Earth
    • What People Are Saying About Dan’s Presentations and Retreats
  • Spiritual Direction
    • Interested in Spiritual Direction (Online)?
    • Interview of Dan for MysticMag
    • Presentations on Spiritual Direction
    • What People Are Saying About Dan’s Presentations on Spiritual Direction
  • H & H
    • 2016 – 2017
    • 2017 – 2018
    • Winter/Spring 2020
    • What People Are Saying About H and H
    • Resources
  • The Written Word
    • Poems
    • The Almond Tree
    • Articles
    • Prayers
  • Donate
  • Contact

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

Life-Line

Posted on August 29, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller
Reply
Today’s Life-Line is: Before his death, Rabbi Zusya wept as he said “In the coming world God will not ask me: “Why were you not like Moses?” God will not ask me: “Why were you not like Isaiah?” “Why then do you weep?” queried his disciples. Read more [...]
Posted in Becoming Human | Tagged Martin Buber | Leave a reply

Soul Making

Posted on August 24, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller
1
It takes three things to attain a sense of significant being: God A Soul And a Moment. And the three are always here. (Abraham J. Heschel, Insecurity of Freedom, 84) There is a word that has made a comeback the last dozen years or so. Maybe Read more [...]
Posted in Soul-Work | Tagged Abraham Heschel, Alan Jones, Becoming Human, God, Soul, Transformation | 1 Reply

Life-Line

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller
2
Today's Life-Line is: I don’t think anyone “finds” joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles that strengthen our hearts so we can keep them open to what is difficult. ~ Dawna Markova   Read more [...]
Posted in Joy | Tagged Dawna Markova, Joy | 2 Replies

Life-Line

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller
1
      Today's Life-Line is: The art of being human is the art of being whole: wholly related to the whole of reality. The word for this exquisite human response to the manifold in the One is holiness. Far from a diminution Read more [...]
Posted in Becoming Human | Tagged Becoming Human, Divinization, Holiness, William McNamara | 1 Reply

A Word to the Wise — Noble

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller
2
Noble             [noh-buh l] I first remember taking notice of the word “noble” when I was 16. At the time, my life revolved around sports the way a hummingbird’s revolves around flowering gardens, basketball being my favorite nectar. Read more [...]
Posted in Word to the Wise | Tagged Beloved of God, Jesus, Noble, Spiritual Direction | 2 Replies

Life-Line

Posted on August 8, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller
1
Today's Life-Line is: Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total — but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial . . . ‘Of Read more [...]
Posted in Non-Violence | Tagged Daniel Berrigan, Peace, War | 1 Reply

Let Us Bow Our Heads and Remember

Posted on August 6, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller
Reply
“So, let us be alert in a twofold sense: Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.” ~ Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning   Read more [...]
Posted in Non-Violence | Tagged Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Peace | Leave a reply

Little Books with Big Meaning

Posted on August 2, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller
7
The last class I offered the last year I worked full-time in a parish was titled “The Mustard Seed Conspiracy: Little Books with Big Meaning.” The title was lifted from a book by Tom Sine. I thought it sounded tantalizingly subversive. The sub-title Read more [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Books, Significant Living | 7 Replies

Life-Line

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller
1

123

Today’s Life-Line is:

We can never be born enough. ~ E.E. Cummings

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Birth, E.E. cummings | 1 Reply

A Word to the Wise — Kindness

Posted on July 31, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller
3
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 [...]
Posted in Kindness, Word to the Wise | Tagged Courage, Deep Sympathy, Dorothy Day, Kindness, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sorrow, Suffering, Wendell Berry | 3 Replies

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

Sample of Writings

  • What a Christian Looks Like
  • The Life of Sigh
  • 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
  • TheGift Who Was Claire Wineland

Sayings of Brother Weeps

  • Brother Weeps Says Good Night
  • Brother Weeps and the Secretary of State
  • Brother Weeps and the Man in the Back
  • Brother Weeps on the Withness of God
  • Brother Weeps, the Hermit and His Dogs
  • Brother Weeps Speaks on Silence
  • Brother Weeps Drives Up a Hill
  • Brother Weeps and the Do-Si-Do

Recent Posts

  • We the People February 17, 2026
  • A Prayer of Martin Luther King, Jr. January 19, 2026
  • This is True December 22, 2025
  • Lectio Poetica No. 13 — We Will Be Known How? February 25, 2025
  • Shouldn’t Christians Try Christianity? February 10, 2025

Topics

Abraham Heschel Advent Aliveness Anawim Awe Beauty Becoming Human Being Present Blessing Brother Weeps Children Christ Christ-life Christmas Compassion Contemplative Seeing Courage Creation Death Divine Love Earth Faith God Gratefulness Hope Incarnation Jesus Joy Justice Kindness Lent Listening Love Music Nature Peace Poetry Prayer Silence Spiritual Practice Suffering Thomas Merton Transformation Wise Sayings Wonder

Topic Categories

  • Advent & Christmas (49)
  • Art (1)
  • Beauty (4)
  • Becoming Human (19)
  • Blessed Tension (5)
  • Blessing (10)
  • Boredom (1)
  • Breakthrough (1)
  • Christian (2)
  • Christian Spirituality (2)
  • Community (4)
  • Compassion (17)
  • Contemplative Living (9)
  • Cosmology (1)
  • Creation (8)
  • Darkness (1)
  • Death (6)
  • Descent (4)
  • Desert Abbas & Ammas (2)
  • Earth (6)
  • Ecology (2)
  • Epiphany (1)
  • Exemplars of Faith (6)
  • Faith (2)
  • Fear (1)
  • Forgiveness (1)
  • God (22)
  • Gratefulness (17)
  • Holiness (6)
  • Hope (10)
  • Hospitality (1)
  • Humility (1)
  • Imago Dei (2)
  • Incarnation (6)
  • Jesus (3)
  • Joy (9)
  • Judgment (1)
  • Justice (7)
  • Kindness (5)
  • Lent & Easter (26)
  • Life & Death (1)
  • Listening (16)
  • Liturgy of Life (3)
  • Living (1)
  • Love (19)
  • Mary (1)
  • Music (3)
  • Mystery (1)
  • Mystic (8)
  • Non-Violence (10)
  • Paschal Mystery (3)
  • Passion (2)
  • Peace (2)
  • Pensées (1)
  • Poetry (36)
  • Praise (1)
  • Prayer (39)
  • Presence (7)
  • Remembrance (2)
  • Renewal (1)
  • Resurrection (2)
  • Reverence (4)
  • Sacred Journey (3)
  • Saints (9)
  • Sayings (1)
  • Scripture (1)
  • Self-Compassion (1)
  • Self-Exploration (3)
  • Significant Living (6)
  • Silence (18)
  • Simplicity (11)
  • Solidarity (3)
  • Solitude (3)
  • Song (3)
  • Soul-Work (2)
  • Spiritual Formation (1)
  • Spiritual Growth (3)
  • Spirituality (11)
  • Stillness (4)
  • Story (32)
  • Suffering (4)
  • Transformation (5)
  • Triduum (13)
  • Trust (1)
  • Truth (1)
  • Uncategorized (440)
  • Universe (1)
  • Waiting (1)
  • Wakefulness (1)
  • Wholeness (1)
  • Wisdom (2)
  • Wonder & Awe (14)
  • Word to the Wise (11)
  • Words (4)
  • Woundedness (1)
  • Yearning (2)

The Almond Tree

Programs


Interested in having Dan come to your community to teach, preach, or lead a retreat? Dan offers Parish Missions, as well as Presentations and Retreats, in a variety of formats .

Read More ►

Spiritual Direction


Interested in Spiritual Direction? Dan is based on Whidbey Island north of Seattle, WA. He meets with people online and occasionally in person. He also is available to teach in spiritual guidance programs or to give talks about spiritual direction.

Read More ►

The Human & the Holy


Interested in being part of a spiritual formation community? The Human & the Holy is an ecumenical community that comes together once a month to share simple ritual, contemplative silence, reverent dialogue, attentive listening, presentation, and spiritual practice.

Read More ►

© Daniel J. Miller, 2013-2026. All Rights Reserved.
For more information contact Dan Miller.