The mind must yield,    must step aside,        fall away, to experience    the grandness of God. God cannot be conceived,    only lived. ­­Text and image © 2023 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.Visit The60SecondSabbath.com, where spirit… Continue reading

    our little wordswill never come close    to describingthe reality that we refer to as God     our puny, little wordswill never come close    to describingthe wild adventure that awaits us post death     how do you… Continue reading

I am okay being    an old dog. "You can't teach an old dog new tricks,"    they say. This     is wrong. Old dogs, can, in fact,    learn new tricks, but old dogs know    not all new tricks… Continue reading

We built a cabin in the woods    of plastic bricksand wires thin as thread    that lead to lightssmall as grains of rice. We built a cabin in the woods,    and a tiny toilet,a tiny fireplace,    a… Continue reading

When I awaken,    my God,remind me once more    that you livedeep within me,    that at my core,your image    is one with mine. I so easily forget    that you are woveninto the fabric of humanity;   … Continue reading

God breathes in us    and in the world.God breathes through us    and through the world. This in-breath,    this out-breath–creative, embodying,    incarnating, enlivening: Christ-breath,    Spirit-breath,Christ breathing,    Spirit breathing. This inhalation–    God rebirths the world,this… Continue reading

These words in my head    are authored by God.Who am I    not to voice them? These images in my eyes    are impressed by God.Who am I    not to disclose them? These songs in my chest   … Continue reading

You fashion us for joy,    yet it eludes us.You mean us for joy,    yet pain blinds us to it–        the world's pain,        our community's pain,        our family's pain,        our… Continue reading

Luke's version of the Christmas story    invites us to turn our attentionto the embodiment of Christ    in the untidy ordinary:         a baby born in back-water Bethlehem,            a poor family shivering in subpar… Continue reading

O God of Time and Eternity,    you hold all moments–past, present, and future–    while we know only this moment,this single speck of Time. All moments are yours,    only this moment is ours,and now it is gone,   … Continue reading