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In what ways, today,will you increase your awarenessthat you are God's beloved? By reading this,you have. And you might slow down sing sit keep silencewalk open hold hands absorblisten meditate stretch … Continue reading
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Christmas Wish
"Believe in the magic of Christmas!"so our greeting cards suggest. "Let Christmas believe in the magic of you!"is my holiday behest. Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Advent Lament
No, you come to early, Lord Jesus:Just announced, yet here it is, two weeks from your arrival. We've got too much to do… Chex Mix to make, cookies to bake.Thank God (I mean, thank your Father) … Continue reading
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Advent Prologue (John 1:6-9)
There is someonesent by Godwhose name is[insert your name here!],who comes as a witnessto testify to the light,so that all might believe. [Insert your name here!]is not the lightbut comes to testifyto the light. The true light,which enlightens everyone,is coming… Continue reading
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Advent Grief, Revisited
(for Jeremy and Mason) How, at your end, are things? Christmas just a week awayand such sudden emptinessof home, of heart death leaves us vacant;I have felt it;negative space the shape of your beloved for a timeyou shall occupy that… Continue reading
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December Work
A dozen tasks traipse through my headas I lie silent on my bed.It's sugar plums I wish would dance;they hold a good deal more romancethan deadlines, proofs and printer's woes.But thus it is, and so it goes. It's not the… Continue reading
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The Approach
Advent, and who is this approaching? What hidden self emerges from the woods, the crawl space, the garden labyrinth? What time-hidden, reclusive divine embodiment has Word to give, Word to enflesh, my Word, that… Continue reading
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Thanksgiving Toast
May we be grateful for the stuff we've got,but also for the stuff we've not. Amen. Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Sacred Dipsomania
There is a drunkennessthat comes not from alcoholbut from encountering the holy. There is an ecstasythat comes not from drugsbut from realizing love. There is only you and me and God,one of us,reeling with joy. Text and image © 2014… Continue reading
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Voice of the Mountain
"It's the wind," he told me,"nothing more." But I'd heard the voice,deep and resonant and beckoning.I could not make out all the words… "Wind," he repeated. …but could tell–just by the tone–it's old, wise, weary. "The mountain has no voice,and… Continue reading