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Belove
God doesn't want us to believe.God invites us to belove.* *In the gospels, belief doesn't mean intellectual assent to tenets and propositions, but alignment, orientation, alliance, relationship to/with the Beloved. "Do you believe in me?" means "Are you with me?… Continue reading
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What Did Jesus Do?
oh, a womana woman is a personI'll talk to hereven though I'm not supposed to oh, a lepera leper is a personI'll touch himeven though I'm not supposed to oh, a childa child is a personI'll hold hereven though I'm… Continue reading
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On a Snowy Night
I walk through my neighborhood on a snowy night a few days before Christmas, mulling over life and just wondering (as in, feeling wonder-struck) at the decorations and lights. Every now and then something I see triggers specific memories from my childhood, like the… Continue reading
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Bring It On
Advent means coming.The Promise on the way.Salvation crouching, encroaching.Deliverance, peace, joy slinking behind Home Depot, the tree, the punch bowl, ready to spring on us. I wait. I open and sit in silence.I settle into awareness.I allow space for Love.I relinquish my grasp, ready… Continue reading
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Prayer
Don't say prayers. Be prayer. Text and image © 2010 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Night Will Blossom
We all grow old. You are older today than yesterday. This is as true for me (at 57) as for the toddler, the teen, the twenty-something. We grow old. I'm not afraid of this. I may have been once (and… Continue reading
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Fearful Questions
The trick, in uncertain times, is not to let your decisions be ruled by questions that arise from fear. As Thomas Merton points out, "A huge network of anxious questions surrounds us and begins to guide many, if not most… Continue reading
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Am I Worthy?
"Am I worthy?" The question is irrelevant! Boring! No one cares (least of all God). It's not about judgement, it's about transformation. There is no jury;There is no judge.Open and waitingAre the steady arms of love. (from "Out in the Open"… Continue reading
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Halloween: Ghosts
The woman believes in ghosts. She believes in ghosts because, each night around two in the morning, she sees them. They enter her bedroom, and, in the dim light from the streetlamp halfway down the block, she makes out their… Continue reading
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The Love of Snow
It is snowing–big, wet flakes coming out of a gentle, quiet, gray sky. There's no anger in this snowfall, nothing being whipped, thrown or driven. It's simply snowing. It's snowing simply. This snow invites: "Watch me," it says. "Enter me;… Continue reading