The 60-Second Sabbath

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  • The Vacuum

    Nature abhors a vacuum. When, on the cross,the darkening blood of Jesusspilled from its tubing,vacated his veins and arteries,escaped like rain,though wood-grained channels,onto and into the thirsty earth,what abhorred that emptiness,rushed to fill it? We did. Text and image ©… Continue reading

  • Answering the Call

    Do you hear that?It's loving calling you,calling you to let go. What's the worst that could happen?You could lose yourselfand find eternity. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Credo

    Sleep in the dark awarenessof God as God is–unknowable, waiting, ready. Here we find faith.    Here we lose self.        Here we become love. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Pink

    He walked out of his bedroomwearing his pink sweatshirt.At age five, it was his favorite. "He's wearing pink,"said his grandfather. "Yes," said the boy's mother."He likes pink.It's his favorite color." "But it's pink." "Yes, it's pink."the boy walked past themand… Continue reading

  • God Said to Me

    From out of the cloud, God said to me,"I do not love the one you were.I do not love the one you are.I love the one you long to be." Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights… Continue reading

  • For Bonnie

    Somewhere in the city,this dark September morning,before light infuses the eastern sky,before the crows stir and lift and caw their way back into the day,someone I knowkeeps watch at the bedsideof her dying sister. This sister, the one hovering near… Continue reading

  • What Dirk Might Know

    Does Dirk understandhe's adopted? Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.   Continue reading

  • What the Cats Might Know

    Do my cats understandthey're adopted? Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Failure

    Success buildson the rubble of repeated failure. No collapsed venture is wasted. Art, relationship, occupation–it's all the same:only those who gleefully fail,succeed. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Looking for Truth

    Religion is,at heart,the story of grace. Whatever codes, creeds, morality, doctrinewe've piled on top of that story–it's all peripheral,optional,not central,not foundational,only created to assuageour insecurity. And if, by chance,these trappings slow you downon the upward climb to compassion,it's time to… Continue reading