isolation
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Living with Ghosts
We all live with ghosts. They are the people we see through,pretending they don't exist. They may be in our house,on the bus,or in the next cubicle at the office. We sit beside them in church,at the ball game,or in… Continue reading
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The Museum
We visit a museum–an enormous, crammed collectionof paintings, furniture and glassware. There are employees here,but they display the same restfulnessas the items exhibited in the glass cases,as the furniture, unused, guarded by satin ropes. It's as if the entire place–contents… Continue reading
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Necessarily Beautiful
One can see the world's selfishness, cruelty and isolation,and still believe in and see its beauty, goodness and connection.The latter remains the realityhidden behind and beneath the former. To believe and see is often difficult.It's a long journey toward awareness:God is in and… Continue reading
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Isolation
The isolation we thinksaves us from hellis, in fact,creating it. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Take a Break
"Take a break," I suggest to God,who looks as ragged as a bitchgiving birth to her 12th litter of pups. "Have you seen my inbox?" God asks."Never been so full:demands, rants, requests for healing,so much anguish,so many crushed hearts–it's overwhelming!Where… Continue reading
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Whose Heart
Whose heart is thisbattered, shattered,scattered in pieces on my bedroom floor? Ah, it's mine. Unspoken, broken,I block the entrance,shoulder the bureau to barricade the door;I quote the raven: "Nevermore!" Text, image and audio © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights… Continue reading