The 60-Second Sabbath

Humility

  • Little Words

    Little words, most effective.Simplest truth, the one enacted.The occasional voice, most clearly heard.Purest heart, most impacted. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.   Continue reading

  • Penitence

    P is for presuming I've compassion.E is for the envy that I feel.N is the nursing of depression.I is for the innocence I steal.T is for the time I keep on wasting.E is for each moment lived in fear.N is… Continue reading

  • Faithing

    Faith should be a verb, as in,"Today I'll spend some time faithing." "Today I'll open to what's next,step into the unknown,discover and experience,take the cream pie in the face,accept the winning lottery ticket…" I'll faith today.How about you? Text and… Continue reading

  • I Am a Child

    "Pat the Bunny" is a children's book."The Cat in the Hat" is a children's book."Winnie the Pooh" is a children's book.The Bible is not a children's book. Absolutely the Bible contains some lovely storiessuitable for children.But it also contains storiesthat… Continue reading

  • No Entry

    What are our limits?How will we recognize them? The award-winner speaks from the platform:"If you can dream it, you can do it!" But I think of all the dreamers–including women and men I know and love–whose dreams remained unfulfilled. No… Continue reading

  • Tight

    I throw you a word:tight. How do you respond? Positively?    "She and I are tight."    "You in those tight jeans–perfect." Negatively?    "He's a tightwad."    "Why are you so uptight?" It's just one word,yet packed with possible… Continue reading

  • Will I Be Loved?

    I am frightened. I feel the heat of the Beloved'sunrelenting, all-exposing light.How will I handleevery shadow erased,every secret stripped bare? Such vulnerability can only be bornewith the assurance of acceptance.When I am known–naked, authentic, true–can I be loved? Will I… Continue reading

  • The Life of the Cat

    My cats never pretendto be something they are not:when they want affection,they seek affection;when they want solitude,they seek solitude;when they want food,they ask for food;when they want warmth,they find warmth;when they want sleep,they sleep. But we humans…how complicated we make… Continue reading

  • The Shredder

    I cannot standthe tap…tap…tappingof neat stacks of papers–piles of tidy creeds and catechisms. Fire up the shredder… Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.   Continue reading

  • Abraham and Isaac

    The most powerful storiesare the ones from which we instinctively recoil.Take, for example,Abraham's call to sacrifice his son, Isaac–this is meant to be a doorway to the sacred? It's a doorway to an empty elevator shaft. Who is God?What is… Continue reading