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Powerful Ideas v. the Idea of Power

October 25, 2023 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

A Mary Oliver poem, “One or Two Things,” describes the gnarled root at the source of our discontent as, “...like a sharp iron hoof, at the center of my mind.” This is of course, pointing to our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Ideas, Mary Oliver, Power

Hoof on the Forehead

October 22, 2023 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

I want to start with that image in Mary Oliver’s poem that I find so compelling -- such wonderful spiritual wisdom. Then we’ll get to the Gospel and maybe find some other wisdom. So what I take … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Horse's hoof, Mary Oliver, Taxes

Your work, and mine

April 30, 2023 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

A YouTube version follows the text. “Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: curiosity, loving the world, Mary Oliver

The promise of our hope

November 2, 2022 By Cam Miller 9 Comments

I am done with election chatter. I wrote last week’s column, a truth I hold, and voted early. Done. Time to move on even though the election and all that hangs on it is still in motion all around us. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: attention, Election chatter, Mary Oliver

Rabia and I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving!

November 24, 2021 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

Thank you. Just thank you. ”My work is loving the world...” Mary Oliver begins her poem, “Messenger.” It is worth looking up for a Thanksgiving reflection. There is too much “prosperity” … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Living Gratefully, Mary Oliver, Prosperity Gratitude

Swallowing it Whole

October 31, 2021 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

A video version follows the text In ancient Israel, and reportedly still today, careful distinctions were made between people who belonged and did not belong, including between a “foreigner” and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: Love, Mary Oliver, What do we have inside

In this world and of it

May 16, 2021 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Texts for Preaching: “Breakage” by Mary Oliver John 17:6-19 Scroll down for sermon video  Don’t you love how descriptive that Mary Oliver poem is? She takes us right to that place on the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sermons Tagged With: In this world and of it, John, Mary Oliver

A little more about the sun…

April 7, 2021 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

From the waterfront in Geneva, the sun seems to rise from behind Vintosa vineyards. On a clear morning a finger of yellow or pink fire curls over the slope on the east side of Seneca Lake. Light from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Awe, Mary Oliver, Sun

Opening the Mind with a New Lens

March 13, 2019 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Some teacher, sometime along the way, likely soured you on poetry. It was done by making you read stiff poems, written in an alien parlance with old-fashioned metaphors, and then insisting you explain … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Billy Collins, Mary Oliver, perception, poetry

Mary Oliver, Thank You

January 17, 2019 By Cam Miller 12 Comments

Mary Oliver, thank you. The simple elegance of your poems exquisitely mirrors what is miraculous in nature – that out of seemingly simple elements placed in fortunate proximity and serendipitous … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Anne Sexton, Mary Oliver, Poems

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