embodiment
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Tomorrow/Today
We dream of lovely tomorrows,but if all we do is dream of them,we never receive them. Now is the time to create those tomorrows. Tomorrow is today. Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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PB&J
We make 100 PB&J sandwiches,gently spreading crunchy peanut butteron donated white bread(which tears easily given the fragility of the breadand the stiffness of the peanut butter). The other slice of breadwe coat with squeezable grape jelly(squeezability speeds up the process).… Continue reading
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Light
Light suffuses him.It squeezes from his poreslike toothpaste from a million, microscopic tubes.It hurts, like reverse injections.He suffers light. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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We Return from the Mountain
We return from the mountain,faces glowingdesperate to describeour encounter with Mystery,but the words for which we reach elude us,don't yet exist–not in English,not in any human tongue. We try:"It's painful but welcome purging," we say."It's corrosive but compassionate reframing…" See? Even these words,like… Continue reading
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Great Joy
It is a great joy,to bring God back to God! "What does this mean?"you ask. Stop asking.Just return. You are the missing partof Completeness. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading