holiness
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Christmas Wish #1
May yourholidaysbringholy daze. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Election Prayer
I pray for our country,that we choose unity over division,hope over despair,poverty over wealth,surrender over dominance,humility over arrogance,peace over violence,compassion over power,the holy over the unholy. I pray for our country. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights… Continue reading
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Sanctuary
There is no sanctuarywithout virtue. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Advent 17
Late Christmas Eveand, by the light of the tree, I sit in the living room writing.The final CD ends;quiet settles about me like an old wool afghan. So this is actually it–that about which we've endlessly sung–the silent night. I… Continue reading
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Temple
Imagine a temple dedicted to what we do not know, to what is beyond imagination, to the vastness beyond vastness (what you may call God). I would expect silence, because that is how I experience awe. The walls would be… Continue reading