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The Cat That Fell From Above

November 29, 2016 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

When I was in seminary there was a guy who had a fat, furry cat in his third floor dorm room, and it would rest on the windowsill of the open window swishing its tail back and forth all day. It was a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Exported, Spiritual Writing/Practice Tagged With: Healing from the election

Listening to the world all around rather than only what has to do with us

September 8, 2016 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

  On a recent morning, cup of coffee in hand, sitting on my bench in the meadow behind my house, dog chewing her most recent stick acquisition, I counted the bird songs. I was remembering how to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Exported, Spiritual Writing/Practice Tagged With: birdsongs, commercialization of spirituality, Spiritual listening

Strange

April 21, 2016 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

I lived in a suburb once, in church owned housing, and my neighbor could be seen crawling in the yard wearing a pith helmet while rooting up dandelions. No joke. He was a sweet man, retired from one … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Exported, Spiritual Writing/Practice Tagged With: lawns, strange, wandering through life

Blonde standing naked in yard with deer in the background

February 15, 2016 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Stroking her soft blond hair, she looks into my soul with pooled brown eyes – shutters of light to bring the world inside but never allowing the inner animal of her soul to be seen by me. We live … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Exported, Spiritual Writing/Practice Tagged With: Maybe just writing

Change

January 8, 2016 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

For more than two decades I shared my days with automobiles starting and stopping at poorly syncopated traffic lights, people rushing to work, class, or in and out of restaurants and stores along … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Exported, Spiritual Writing/Practice Tagged With: Change, Spiritual Reflection

Good & Evil? Think Again.

October 13, 2015 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

In the Gospel of Matthew (that’s the New Testament of the Bible), it says: “From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of God has suffered violence, and men of violence take it by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Exported, Spiritual Writing/Practice Tagged With: Flannery O'Conner, Good & Evil, spiritual wisdom

What Else We May See In The Mirror

October 6, 2015 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

  Let’s muse about one of the most persistent criticisms of religion: that religious beliefs are nothing more than a projection of human values and needs onto something we call God. We hear … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Exported, Spiritual Writing/Practice Tagged With: Critics of religion, Projection, spirituality

We won’t encounter God in the past or the future

September 21, 2015 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Summer arrived in mid-August. Perhaps it was the severity and length of last winter that so raised the expectations for summer that even the most sublime growing season could not fill the empty space … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Exported, Spiritual Writing/Practice Tagged With: god, mindfulness, spiritual practice

Go. Get ready. Aim.

August 10, 2015 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Outcomes. Products. Measurements. Spiritual practice is not about outcomes; it is about process. As fixated as we can become on fixing problems, restoring justice, even something so grand as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Exported, Spiritual Writing/Practice Tagged With: Process, resisting measurement, Task

It Begins with a Place

July 28, 2015 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

To say that everyone needs ‘a place’ in which to be spiritual sounds absurd, and yet we do. To say that we need a ‘sacred place’ is simply ridiculous and true. It was long believed, and still is by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Exported, Spiritual Writing/Practice Tagged With: Sacred space, spiritual practice, spirituality

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