advice
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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
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Job II
And what would you have said?"Life sucks"?"There is no answer"?"God is capricious and uncaring"?"God? What God?""Try meth instead"? I would have sat beside himand wept. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Unsolicited Advice
There is a Japanese proverb that suggests, "Don't give others what they don't want." How often haven't I done this? I recall the sermons I've preached, the classes I've taught, the workshops I've lead, the articles I've written… In retrospect,… Continue reading
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Advice from the Future
Back in 2004, I was given an interesting challenge, to imagine my self 10 years hence giving advice to myself in the present. What would 10-years-the wiser Dirk have to say to 51-year-old Dirk? Now I'm over half the way… Continue reading