The 60-Second Sabbath

exclusion

  • How to Build Hell

    Erect lots of barriers.Shut people out.Convince ourselves it's us vs. them.Imagine we are under attack.Inflame our mutual paranoia.Entertain no viewpoint but our own. Hey,not quite the kingdom Jesus imagined for us,but our fearful superioritywill just have to substitute. Text and… Continue reading

  • Walls

    At duskI come upon the ruinsof an ancient wall.It's graying rocks,lichen-covered and rain-smoothed,rise like disintegrating teethabove the black-eyed Susansand Queen Anne's laceof the field. Whose hands gathered and stacked these stonesand to what purpose?Was I to be kept out?Were you to… Continue reading

  • Isolation

    The isolation we thinksaves us from hellis, in fact,creating it.  Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.    Continue reading