The 60-Second Sabbath

Nature

  • Today’s Assignment

    Look steadily into the eyesof any animalwilling to accept your gaze. Be still there. What is to be known?What do you learn about yourself?What is revealed of God?  Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.   Continue reading

  • How God Speaks

    We strive and struggleto hear God speaking,when we ourselvesare God speaking, our very existence,God's shout of "Yes!" to creation,our very selves, first and foremost,an invitationto divine dialogue.  We are the prose and poetry of God,God's sonnet and soliloquy,God's laughter and passionate… Continue reading

  • Incarnation 2

    Jesus merged these two:humanity and divinity. We inherit this non-duality:humanityanddivinity. Do not call Jesus Godwithout also calling him man.Do not call me manwithout also calling me God. Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Yes or No?

    Start with "no,"and you'll never get to "yes";doors slam the length of the corridor,blocking entrance to all possiblities. Start with "yes,"and sunlight filtersthrough a thousand, trembling leaves. Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Making Progress

    I review my spiritual journey: I needed clarity then.I need mystery now. I needed definition then.I live in the vast Open now. I needed safety then.I am falling now, ever upward. Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All… Continue reading

  • Christmas Wish #4

    Let'splunder lessandwonder more. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Christmas Wish #2

    May you drop your toys.May you stop your noise. May you grasp the Other.May you gasp in wonder. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • What We Need

    I'll tell you what we need:    more ears    and fewer tongues. My cats will tell us what we need:    more purr    and less hiss. The snow-silenced woodswill tell us what us what we need:    less noise    and more glistening, listening stillness. Christmas tells you what you… Continue reading

  • Missing Winter

    Where are you winter?Where the scouring windsand white-rimed leaves,hold-overs from last season's arboreal couture?Where the leveling whiteness,the inward-driving respitefrom summer's relentless restlessness? Where are you winter? Our warm outerwear waits in darkness,wondering, worried;a feeling of abandonment settles like duston the… Continue reading

  • The Eyes of God

    God looks at youand experiences ecstasy. Shall we do any lesswhen we look at one another? Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading