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The Human & the Holy

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller
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After spending this afternoon and early evening together, The Human & the Holy spiritual formation community completed our 13th year together. What a blessing these people are to each other and to me as we come together once a month from September Read more [...]
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The Love that Returns

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller
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Most, if not all of you, are familiar with the story in Luke 15: 11-32 typically called the parable of the prodigal son. Those of you who have read what I have written or heard me speak on this passage know that I feel it has been misnamed. It would be Read more [...]
Posted in Compassion | Tagged Friendship, Gregory Boyle, Love, Prodigal Father, Prodigal Son, Spiritual Direction, Thomas Merton | 6 Replies

A Word to the Wise — Anamnesis

Posted on May 12, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller
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Anamnesis [an-am-nee-sis] One of my favorite words is a Greek term. It is an important theological word used especially by Catholic Christians in reference to the Eucharist. But it seems to me that anamnesis might be a reconciling word where Christians Read more [...]
Posted in Word to the Wise | Tagged Anamnesis, Eucharist, Gratefulness, Remembrance, St. Exupery, The Little Prince | 1 Reply

Life-Line

Posted on May 9, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today’s Life-Line is: Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your Read more [...]
Posted in Compassion | Tagged Daniel Berrigan, Deep Sympathy, Face, Hope, Life-line, Neighbor | 3 Replies

Puddle Don’t Piddle

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller
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  It rained yesterday and the night before. This is news in southern California. Suddenly the world seemed “mud-luscious” and “puddle wonderful.” With perfect synchronicity, a friend from the perennially precipitating Northwest posted Read more [...]
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Life-Line

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: Our Father, Mother, who are in the world and surpass the world, blessed by your presence, in us, in animals and flowers, in still air and wind. May justice and peace dwell among us as you come to us. Your will be our will. You Read more [...]
Posted in Prayer | Tagged Becoming Human, Daniel Berrigan, Forgiveness, God, Justice, Peace, The Lord's Prayer | Leave a reply

The Preeminent Question

Posted on May 1, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller
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To say that there is a God, to say that God is, is to say that “love is the source, center, and destiny of experience.”[i] To be made in the image of God means that we are gifted-into-being, that our very being, our being at all, our being here Read more [...]
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Life-Line

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: Don't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n you let the humor blot out the pain. ~ Slight adaptation from Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest       Read more [...]
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Life-Line

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller
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Today's Life-Line is: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last Read more [...]
Posted in Listening | Tagged Frederick Buechner, Grace, Gratefulness, Mystery, Reverence, Significant Living | Leave a reply

Going to Peace

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller
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This past Monday through Wednesday in Rome there was an unprecedented conference hosted by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace that elicited a landmark result. Some 80 participants from around the world gathered at the Vatican to discuss Jesus' Read more [...]
Posted in Non-Violence | Tagged Peace-making | Leave a reply

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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 .

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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.

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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.

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