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Best Life
I want to live in the kingdom of innocencewhere mystics and children dwell. Text and image © 2025 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Have you ordered your copy of Contemplative Vision: Photography as a Spiritual Practice? Follow this link: https://www.churchpublishing.org/contemplativevision Continue reading
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Becoming Childlike
Jesus tells us, "Become like a child."The child– in innocence–does not attempt to be anything otherthan what they are. They naturally pursue,not self-glorification or self-expansion,but self-fulfillment. And we adults? "Become like children"and allow the… Continue reading
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What I Am Not
Let me tell you what I am not. I am not my thoughts. Thoughts come and go.What I think now is not what I thought5, 10 years ago, and what I think todaywon't be my thoughts … Continue reading
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A Prayer for Myself, the President, and All Who Read This
Today, grant me a shattering, transformative encounter with you, my Christ, ego-stripping, humbling, overwhelming, overturning. Awaken me to accept that the things I own, … Continue reading
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Psalm 46:10, Exploded
"Be still and know that I am God." Sit in silence and know that I am God.Quiet your mind and know that I am God.Stop your restless rumination and internal, verbal regurgitation and know that I… Continue reading
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Welcome Back, Winter
Oh, Winter, dear, you heard my plea; you have returned to play with me,to chill my nose and make it run, to fling your flakes in reckless fun. I welcome you with open arms embracing all your… Continue reading
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Epiphany, 2025
Happy Epiphany, the day that celebrates the arrival of the kings,but more importantly, the day that proclaimsthat the Light has arrived, Light for all,no matter our creed, race, or nationality. Light for all people! Hallelujah! Gloria in excelsis… Continue reading
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Winter, Are You There? (Christmas, Day 6)
Winter, where are you? Have you abandoned us?End of a snowless December, drought and tinder and strong winds–fire danger high. Winter, where are you? 60 degrees, sunny as October.December's been mostly 50s and nights nearly too… Continue reading
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Christmas, Day 5
I hang suspended between Christmas and New Years. I swing slowly in the hammock of nonengagement,strung from one maple to another in the shady yard of childhood. This week has always been thus: vacation from school… Continue reading
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Gloria in Excelsis Deo!*
(*originally posted in 2013) Let your Christmas gloriasresound long and loudlyinto this new year. Why save them for December? Gloria in excelsis Deo! Are you afraid you may run out? Gloria in excelsis Deo! Such is… Continue reading