The 60-Second Sabbath

Humility

  • Advent 11

    “Open your ears,” Jesus says,which means some of uschoose deafness. “Join the company of listeners;hear the sigh of your spouse,your neighbor,your heart.” Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.    Continue reading

  • Advent 10

    "Open your eyes," Jesus says,which means that some of uschoose blindness. "Join the company of the open hearts,the unafraid, the welcoming!" Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.  Continue reading

  • Advent 6

    Light breaks through. For ancient Romethe empire represented light–light for the world–the light of the emperor,the light of god. And along come Matthew, Luke, John–all making the radical (dangerous!) claimthat this new one, this baby, this neonateis the actual light of the world–not… Continue reading

  • Time Came Rushing

    Time just came rushing, pushing through the condo,self-important, indispensable,slamming me,without apology,against the hallway wall,on his way to something that mattered–what the hell?"No time!" he said, breathless,"So much to do!" I, meanwhile,feeling bruised and discarded,steadied myself and realized,with a shock,that time–hurried,… Continue reading

  • Advent 1

    I hear the blareof ancient, dented, tarnished trumpets:judgment day? Am I ready? "Relax," says God,"These mothballed tootersannounce reconciliation (not punishment),healing (not diagnosis),transformation (not exposure),a massive promotion (not downsizing).These honks haul y'all heavenward." With a grin as wide as all creationand… Continue reading

  • Psychic Knots

    I spent this morninguntying psychic knots…    not unlike untangling Christmas lights,    or undoing the knot I unintentionally  yanked into my shoelace,    or loosening the matted hair in my cat's calico coat,except this is a mass of my… Continue reading

  • About Nothing

    I offer upa relevant quotefrom Oscar Wilde,especially as we approachanother election year: "I like talking about nothing.It's the one thingI know something about." Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • A Headline for the World

    If, tomorrow morning,  you had the opportunityto put your one, best line of adviceon the front page of every  newspaper,or every website,across the globe,what would it be?If you could boil downto one two- to six-word headlinethe organzing concept of your… Continue reading

  • Idolatry

    The God with whom you walk todayis not the God with whom you walked yesterday,and won't be the God with whom you walk tomorrow. Certainty is idolatry. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.  Continue reading

  • Transformational Exchange

    I propose a new business–a worldwide franchise–where, at any time,you stop in to tradeyour ideologyfor dialogue. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.    Continue reading