The 60-Second Sabbath

Peace

  • Twelfth Night

    Now it is Twelfth Night.Beyond the windows,snow falls and darkness encroaches,but the lights of our treebeckon with welcome, joy and hope. Tonight we say farewell to Christmas;tomorrow Epiphany dawns. This year, what has Christmas taught you? Text and image © 2013… Continue reading

  • New Year’s Eve

    Out with the crappy,     the silly, the dumb,Out with what leaves us    so distrait and numb.In with the clearer,    the focused, the real,In with our opting    to be and to feel. Here's to less TV,   … Continue reading

  • O Antiphons: Key of David

        O come, thou Key of David, come,        and open wide our heavenly home;    make safe the way that leads on high,        and close the path to misery. The Key is on its way;hold on a… Continue reading

  • O Antiphons: Desire of Nations

        O come, Desire of nations, bind        in one the hearts of humankind,    bid thou our sad divisions cease,        and be thyself our King of Peace. The world, worn and weary,barely able to rise from bed each morning,tired of grieving… Continue reading

  • O Antiphons: Branch

        O come, thou Branch of Jesse's tree,    free them from Satan's tyranny    that trust thy mighty power to save,    and give them victory o'er the grave. You come to free us.Oh, and there is so… Continue reading

  • Haiku for the Christmas Tree

    Washed in colored lightand tears and memory, I'mundone by wonder. Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Corduroy

    Was going to write something this morning,but then a cat climbs up on my lapand curls into a tight, plump, capital "C,"settling onto the brown, wide-wale corduroyof the bathrobe my mother sewed for meover thirty years ago,and then the cat… Continue reading

  • Advent Lantern

    I hold my lantern overhead,and turning, look back at the past–such darkness blocks remembrance,only pinpricks of light in a field of black. I turn to look ahead.The light of my lanterncannot penetrate the fog of future's uncertainty.I hear muffled voices;unformed… Continue reading

  • This Moment, Expanded

    Stop focusingon what's missingfrom this moment.Focus insteadon what this momentoffers:    texture    color    movement    inspiration    affection    wonder    stillness Your egowants to catalogwhat the moment lacks. Your soulwants to reveal the momentfor what it truly… Continue reading

  • This Moment

    We can critiqueeach momentfor what it lacks. Or we can embraceeach momentfor what it offers. Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading