The 60-Second Sabbath

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  • Grand Opening

    My mind:    a spring leaf unfurls to the sun.My heart:    a warmed seed opens to moist soil.My body:    a dry chrysalis splits to new life. This is the momentof divine encounter:mind, heart and body,naked and willing,cupped and… Continue reading

  • Simplicity and Innocence

    In the second half of life,there often arisesthe yearning to returnto simplicity and innocence.  Have you felt it?Do you feel it now? It is the yearningto see with wide-open eyesand an equally wide-open heart. That seems to us a paradox:How… Continue reading

  • For Me

    My poems,my photographs–they live for me,    to please me,    to nurture me,    to move me. Through them,I journey onward. Or, perhaps,they manifest for their own sake. Or, perhaps,for God's. Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries.… Continue reading

  • Incarnation

    We,the children of incarnation,hereby declarethat we are not one,but many.We are composite;we are alloy. Pure? No, never.Emphatically. We are the cross-bred childrenof the cross-bred children,of the original parents–the melding of divinity and humanity,as was intended,as was anticipated. We,arethe childrenof messy,… Continue reading

  • Yin-Yang

    I come upon the cats,sleeping as you see below–"yin-yang," I describe it,all things in balance,passive and active,female and male,nurture and creativity,earth and sky. Something in their naturally posed stillness,which I observe at least once a week,speaks to me of the… Continue reading

  • “You Are What You Love”

    Rumi suggests,"You are what you love."What then are you? I am silence.I am friends.I am a photograph    revealing the unexpected.I am a poem    provoking discovery.I am a walk in the woods.I am music.I am wonder.I am God. Text… Continue reading

  • Christmas, Day 9

    Hold my hand,for I am frightened:what if, just this once,Christmas doesn't come? We draw toward midnight;our candles burn low.How do we continueif Christmas doesn't come? The clock strikes the hour,the earth sighs beneath us–a sigh of sweet relief.Christmas has come.… Continue reading

  • Christmas, Day 4

    Longing speaks of God,leans into the Divine,lurches heavenward. Let yearning yield to the Holy. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Compromising the Divine

    Our ideas of God    always conformto the norms of our culture. How radical faith would be    if we could crossthese imagined borders. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • The Eyes of God

    God looks at youand experiences ecstasy. Shall we do any lesswhen we look at one another? Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading