incarnation
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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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A Limerick for Christmas (Day 10)
There was a wee infant so coldAttended by ordure and gold, A paradox stabled, Our God somehow cradled.We've never seen helpless so bold. Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Hybrids
History embeds the arrival of the new yearwithin the season of Christmas(day eight, to be exact),which means we scan 2014's possibilitiesfrom this perspective: the holy is among us, humanity and divinity have melded, and each of us, just… Continue reading
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Incarnation
Somewhere in the suburbsa child is bornwho will transformour sameness and sadnessinto light and beauty. Is the child yours? Are you the child? Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Today’s Assignment
Look steadily into the eyesof any animalwilling to accept your gaze. Be still there. What is to be known?What do you learn about yourself?What is revealed of God? Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Incarnation 2
Jesus merged these two:humanity and divinity. We inherit this non-duality:humanityanddivinity. Do not call Jesus Godwithout also calling him man.Do not call me manwithout also calling me God. Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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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
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Christmas, Day 2
"Christ did not come into the world for gold." –Bartalome de Las Casas (1484-1566) Christ has not come for power.Christ has not come for gold.Christ has not come for fame.Christ has not come to shame or scold. Christ has… Continue reading
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I AM
I AM He.I AM She.I AM It.I AM All. We are He.We are She.We are It.We are All. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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It’s Christmas!
It happened. Invited or not,God is with us, beside us,before us,beneath us,behind us, within us. Glory!It's Christmas! Text and image © 2010 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading