insight
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The Flu
Let's say you have the fluand a fever of 104: While you sleep, fitfully,twisting and sweating,an angel appearsand unravels visionspatched together from your pastand borrowed from your future. Who's to say whether your illnessprovides a doorway to truthful, hidden depthsor… Continue reading
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In the Trailer Park
In my 20s,while attending graduate school,I lived in a trailer parkin Kalamazoo, Michigan.Many daysI'd go running around the outer edge of the park,a distance of about 1/4 mile.I'd run around and around the same narrow, asphalt street,past the same rusty… Continue reading
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What Have You Been Doing?
What have you been doing all day? Trying to find meaning.Seeking to settle.Searching out words and images that capture one moment's truth– one simple insight– one fleeting, tenuous slip of something to hold before it escapes, … Continue reading
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You There
You, there–the one looking back from life's second half–What is it you see?What is it you know?What is it you understand? You have walked through transformational fire,and it has melted from your eyesthe clouded lensesthat keep me from seeingthe real,… Continue reading
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Let It Have Its Way
O, my God–loving and sustaining God–sometimes I feel as if my heart and head and soul will explode–so many ideas and insights and understandings and imaginings–all at once. What am I to do with this? How/when/where does it find expression?… Continue reading
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Just for Today
Just for todaystop trying to get somewhere.Stop wanting anything in particular. Instead,experience where you are.Experience who you are. Just for today,let the mud settle.Let the water clear. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Jeremy’s Wisdom
Do you know someone like this? "I don't really have anything to say to you, so…here's some words…" Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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These Words
These words are mine to write.They are not yours.They are the clearing in the forestwhere I chant and dance and take chances.These words are mine to write. Your words are yours to write.They are not mine.They are the glass panel… Continue reading
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If Only…
If I could just hold all insights in concsciousness. If all those "aha" moments–when vision becomes clear and a few more pieces fall into place and I stand breathless on the brink of the divine–would stay with me. If only…… Continue reading
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On Journaling
Journaling can be good and healthy and helpful. Journaling can also bog us down. Some of us journal and rehash all the things that we obsess about anyway, so the journaling is just an extension of our usual mental clutter.… Continue reading