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Thank You!

January 31, 2023 By Cam Miller 3 Comments

Thank you. Thank you for sharing in this online spiritual community. I am humbled again and again by its reach across national boundaries and continents, across religious traditions and among those … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT, Sermons Tagged With: gratitude, Peace be with you, Thank you

A word meditation for Thanksgiving

November 23, 2022 By Cam Miller 12 Comments

I have written about this before, and had the opportunity to talk about it in a recent public forum. It is about gratitude, and what better time to ponder gratitude than the day before … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Awe, gratitude, Thanksgiving

A River of Gratitude

March 9, 2022 By Cam Miller 12 Comments

I was an adjunct professor for five years and taught an introduction to the primal narratives in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. As it turned out, for some students it was also a writing boot … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: gratitude, Teaching, writing

Gratitude then live…

November 21, 2021 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

Texts for Preaching this Week Matthew 6:25-33, and: "Messenger" by Mary Oliver My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird— equal seekers of sweetness. Here the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Getting, gratitude, loving the world

To cry over a single blade of grass

April 18, 2021 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

For a video version scroll to the bottom of the following text Texts: Luke 24:36-48 and "What the Living Do" by Marie Howe In that poem we heard, Marie Howe is talking to her deceased brother, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: gratitude, grief, Resurrection

Thank You

September 4, 2019 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Seneca Lake, NY A great quiet wind came through town this weekend and the ensuing hush was remarkable. On Saturday morning we rode our bicycles down to the waterfront and onto the Ontario Pathways … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: fall, gratitude, summer

Happy Thanksgiving – A Saucy Reduction

November 24, 2018 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

This is a "sermon reduction" - you know, like cooking down a sauce into something even more savory? This was a twelve minute sermon preached last Sunday, now reduced to 500 words for the newspaper. It … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Abundance, gratitude, Service

The Healing of a Cool Rain on a Dark Morning

September 26, 2018 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

Six-thirty in the morning is dark again, an envelope of stillness as dog and I walk beneath the canopy of trees along the street. No other human or canine life was visible this morning, suppressed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Diet, gratitude, healing

Happy Thanksgiving from subversivepreacher

November 22, 2017 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

This post appeared first in The Finger Lakes Times … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: gratitude, Holiness, Thanksgiving

A Wedding!

August 23, 2016 By Cam Miller 20 Comments

When my oldest daughter was three years old she was passed from lap to lap in the parish hall of the church I was serving. Each Sunday between the early and late morning worship services, an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Community, gratitude, Wedding

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