Dreams
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Tomorrow/Today
We dream of lovely tomorrows,but if all we do is dream of them,we never receive them. Now is the time to create those tomorrows. Tomorrow is today. Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Closeness
We long for God's closenessWe dream of it, pray for it, weep for it. Even those who deny it, desire it. There is the comfort of God's presence,but, oh, there is also the challenge. Text and image © 2014… Continue reading
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Lent
It is Lent.It is timeto make spacefor the Holy. It is Lent.Let us fastfrom our fearsand our worries. Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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The Creative Process
So you'd like to write a poem? Use common words in uncommon ways. Only say what's authentic for you or it will land false. End with a punch, not below… Continue reading
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So Like God
So like God to consume my pending harvest like locusts, to burn through my meticulous blueprints like wildfire, to cleanse me of soot and soothe my seared soul like rainfall, and to… Continue reading
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Thursday Prayer
Good morning, Creator: Take pity on me, I pray,that today the disorienting winds of rearrangement won't leave me again upside-down in the bushes,but instead may speed me further toward tomorrows cupping contentment. Amen. Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All… 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
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Sophia, Once Again
"Sweetie," she said,"these things aren't happening to you,they're happening for you.There's a big difference." My blank lookmust have communicated my confusion. She patted me on the knee."You just sit with thatwhile I get us some tea." Text and image © 2014… Continue reading