Peace
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Advent 5
A winter blizzard separates us–you are two miles away,but may as well be in Sitka. My normal snowstorm excitementdrifts over with loneliness. I think I'm craving you,but what I may be cravingis a tranquil, storm-embraced me. Text and image ©… Continue reading
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Liquid Moon
Last nightI halted at the pond's edge; the moon had donated her fullnessto the water's textureless surface. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Everywhere at Once
Somewhere in our late-November neighborhooda dusty hearth cradles the season's first fire.Someone stares into those flames,cloaked in forest fragrance,holy as high-church incense. I close my eyes, inhale,am everywhere at once. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights… Continue reading
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Mean Thoughts
I spend too much timerounding up mean thoughts,hoarding trivialities,trapping mice in my moldy cellarand keeping them in cages in the living room. Why do I value them so?Why not simply let them go?Why not turn them loose in the field… Continue reading
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Midlife Wedding Day
We shall spend our lives together.I feel rather more certain of this at 58,than I could have at 25 or 40. We shall be together when one of us dies–not a morbid thought, but comforting:either I will hold you,or you me,and one… Continue reading
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Snow Has Started Falling
Snow has started falling.You call me to the window.We join hands,and we are kids again,entranced by the gentlenessof this, the season's first snowfall. To us, it is magic,this slow dropping of the white sky,piecemeal, silent, purifying. We don't need words… Continue reading
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Prayer
Creator of the universe,I humbly seekyour presenceand your peace. Amen. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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God Dreams
Shhhh!Quiet.Enter on tiptoe:God sleeps. God dreams of a world of justice where none go hungry, where all have enough, where none are fearful, where all are embraced. God dreams of a world at peace. Text and… Continue reading
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John 11
It begins as a Halloween momentfit for John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Rob Zombie–Lazarus stumbling from the tomb,tripping over loose graveclothes that droop like soiled underwear. The people's averted gazes and cries of horrorturn to wide-eyed astonishmentand that goose-bumpy, gaspy feeling you… Continue reading
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Back through the Gate
Amma.Abba. I offer theseat the beginning of my prayers–or often as the substance of my prayers–as symbols of assent,as symbols of ascent,a yes to the divine,the desire for transcendence,the opening of heart, mind and spirit to transformation,back through the gate,back… Continue reading