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Hearing the music with touch, touching the words with memories

April 17, 2022 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Scroll down to below the text for a video version Letter to the New York Symphony Orchestra By Helen Keller, March 24, 1924 “Dear friends: I have the joy of being able to tell you that, though … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: 9th Symphony, Helen Keller, Words

On Writing Denim Spirit

April 13, 2022 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

A NOTE...to those reading this on my website rather than in the newspaper: Denim Spirit is a weekly column that appears each Wednesday in The Finger Lakes Times (NY. Cir. 30,000) and the references … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: "Calling", Gifts, writing

Poetry & Historical Fiction – Palm Sunday

April 10, 2022 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

  A video version follows this written text Easter is poetry and Palm Sunday is historical fiction. Don’t get mad yet, historical fiction can be and is composed of actual facts and real … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Deconstruction, demythologizing, Filling in the Gaps

Is it okay to poison dogs?

April 6, 2022 By Cam Miller 3 Comments

I realize not everyone likes dogs. Some people prefer cats, some birds. Some get along with plants while others keep fish. I get it, or at least intellectually I accept it. But really, a dog... A … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT

Jesus Gets a Massage

April 3, 2022 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Video version posting on YouTube Sunday, April 3 at 9:45 AM This story about Jesus getting a therapeutic massage is one of the few stories about Jesus that is actually included in all four … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Isaiah, Massage, oxigen mask

Is it a wonderful life?

March 30, 2022 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

A haze of white flakes pelted my face with the temperature in the teens on Monday morning. Dog and I leaned in against the wind as March roared like a lion with forty mph wind gusts. By mid-morning I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: negative impact, ordinary saint, positive influence

Guess what matters?

March 27, 2022 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

Scroll down for video version The armchair preachers were wondering what the word for this week would be. On Lent One it was “fear,” Lent Two “loss,” Lent Three “thirst.” If there is one word … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: choices, jealousy, prodigal

Aging Spirits

March 23, 2022 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

Burris School, K-12, Muncie, Indiana I grew up in a Midwestern rust belt college town about the size of Utica, NY. When I was young the assembly lines were humming -- Westinghouse, Borg Warner … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Muncie, Privacy, Reunion

Thirst

March 20, 2022 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Today’s reflection is rooted in Isaiah 55:1-9 The poem, “All Thirst Quenched” by Lois Red Elk The hymn, “Come to the Water.” A video version follows the text Okay, there … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Come to the Water, Cost, Thirst

You and Me and Putin

March 16, 2022 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

Earth is a single cell in the body of something so vast we can’t even imagine it. All we can do is stutter the word, “God.” Cells are subject to cancer and neurodegenerative disease so the nucleus … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Cell, Earth, Putin

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