kingdom
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Visual Parable
Here on the plazain Old Town Albuquerque,many chairs of varying huesgather around a single, sunny table. I get it,thank you. Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Great and Historic Virtue
We see our lives small:what have we accomplished, really? Yesterday I spent three hours ironing–did this heal the world?Did this advance the reign of God? From the 13th centuryechoes the voice of St. Bonaventure:"The perfection of a spiritual man [woman]is… Continue reading
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PB&J
We make 100 PB&J sandwiches,gently spreading crunchy peanut butteron donated white bread(which tears easily given the fragility of the breadand the stiffness of the peanut butter). The other slice of breadwe coat with squeezable grape jelly(squeezability speeds up the process).… Continue reading
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The Ticket to Heaven
"What's this?" Jesus asked his disciples.He held up a rectangular slip of paper. "Looks like a light-rail pass,"said Peter. Jesus flipped it over:one the back, in large letters,he'd written the word HEAVEN."What's this?" he asked. "Oh, oh, I know!" said… Continue reading
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Theocracy?
Those who advocate for theocracy(a country run by God)imagine a godwho acts and thinks as they do,with the added benefit of power. But their theocracy wouldn't, of course,be the static, controlling, orderly reign of Godthat they envision,because God is wildand… Continue reading
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The Lord’s Prayer, Stanza 7
It's all yours–every scattered, incomprehensible nebula,every iotic jot and tittle,union, vigor, repute,now and always,with us or without. Let it be so.Let it be so. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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The Lord’s Prayer, Stanza 3
We yearn for your vision of wholenessto become our reality.Erase our pretended perimetersbetween this life and the next. We embrace the creation of Paradise–here, now–as our Greatest Commission. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading