Compassion
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On Becoming an Anti-Racist: Part Sixteen
CAWS I propose we create a new organization: Christians against White Supremacy or CAWS for short. Our logo/mascot will be the common crow,who, as you know, caws. As Christians, we share this common CAWS.… Continue reading
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The Point
When I walked into the kitchen this morning,eager for my warming cup of cinnamon decaf,I found a note on the counter …from Sophia.It started: Sorry we missed you. Figured you were sleeping in because of the gray… Continue reading
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Advent Grief, Revisited
(for Jeremy and Mason) How, at your end, are things? Christmas just a week awayand such sudden emptinessof home, of heart death leaves us vacant;I have felt it;negative space the shape of your beloved for a timeyou shall occupy that… Continue reading
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Veils
Throughout lifeeach lossremoves another of the veilsthat obscure the Mysterywe desperately yearnto see and hold. Some veilsslip slowly from their rods,like so much sighing. Some veilsare torn awayby sudden and ferocious winds,like flashes of celestial anger. Loss hurts so very much.… Continue reading
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Life
What is life, then,but the gradual uncoveringof our elastic,unbreakable,tether to God? Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Surgery
As my sister's surgery starts,guide the hands and still the hearts, calm the nerves and dry the tears,give us patience, ease our fears. All scenarios we have foundlead us on to sacred ground, God's… Continue reading
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Prayer for the Cat
Lord bless the pawthat touches the cheekthat bears the tearsthat cleanse the heartthat's battered and scarred. Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Dreaming
At night they come to me–my sister or my father,my mother or her mother–mutually recognizingthat they have diedand that we have,for whatever reason,been given a few more minutes together. Sometimes,I ask questions,because I need to know,to understandmyself. Sometimesit is enough… Continue reading
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Striving
Too much striving– to repair the past, to guarantee the future, to be what others want–so, so weary of striving. The dying say,"I regret having worked so hard." Aren't we all "the dying"? Text and image ©… Continue reading
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God Undefined
Give me a Godwho's a little bit odd, who strays a bit south of convention,a God made of partsof old broken hearts, a God of unnerving invention. I want the Divineto stray from the line and shrug off our tight expectation,a… Continue reading