Cincinnati
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Your Tongue
Your tonguelike the clapper of a wind-battered bell,constantly clangs and clatters.Why the ceaseless alarm? Hush now and allowthe sufficiency of silence. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Impossibilities
Gabriel appears to Mary,scans her heart,scares the bejesus into her.She drops the mending,the basket of eggs,the water jug,the familiar, known and comfortable.Reaching back…back…back into their shared story,this shattering, shimmering apparition speaks:"We can't do this. God can."…and Mary's heart and womb… Continue reading
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God in Love
Why is God so in love with us–humanity gone mad–divided, violent, greedy? Because love is,by nature,irrational. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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A New Name for God
Every dayinvent a new name for God. Every dayfind another wayto voice your experience of the eternal. Death comeswhen you cease reachingfor the horizon that leads you onwardto speak in as yet unknown tongues. Don't resistand don't be afraid. Text… Continue reading
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El Shaddai
A choice today:ally yourself with hopeor with despair. On the back stoop of your lifewait two buckets–one filled with cat crapscooped from your heart's litter box,and the other filled with milk and creamfresh-squeezed from the aching udders of God. Why… Continue reading