The 60-Second Sabbath

oneness

  • The Moment

    How is itwe find such truthin nakedness,in union? [which makes familiar our essential strangeness] What is it about the moment,    transcendent,    fleeting,    holy? Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • 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

  • Another Take on Justice

    Justice,for God,is restorative,not retributive. When his detractorswanted Jesusto condemn,to punish,he insteadforgives,restores,takes it backto before the offense. This is God's justice–not the slow burn in hellbut the time machine returnto original oneness. Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All… Continue reading

  • Advice in Eden

    God saysto first woman,first man,"Go makehot-spicy,sweet-stickylove.Lose your imagined selvesin delirious merging.This wondrous onenessis me."  Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Dream

    And as I dreamed,my skin dissolvedand I expanded,spread outward,a being of refracted lightsurrounded by beings of refracted light,no longer divided entitiesbut all part of a greater,    glittering,    interconnected whole. I knew my separate selfas illusion,and this wondrous, webbed oneness    as life, … Continue reading

  • The One

    If God exists,and God is All in All,then nothing that existsis not God. All faithsare expression of this One God,and all existwithin the wholenessof this All-EncompassingOne. Whatever differences we perceive(and we do perceive differences)–they will one day be seenas they… Continue reading

  • Like Fish in Water

    When was the last timeyou heard of fishattending a conferenceabout water? Why, then,do we attend conferencesabout God?  Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Dependence Day

    Let's celebrate Dependence Day! Let's acknowledge how desperately we need one another;    our interconnection;    how our lack of unity grieves God;    how healing only happens when we own our fear and need;     how division slowly consumes the… Continue reading

  • Woven Together

    We may share joy;we most certainly sharethe warp and woofof sorrow. Our woundedness weaves us one.  Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • This Gulf between Us

    You imagine we are separate, don't you?You think I'm over hereand you're over there;am I right? This gulf between usis an illusion. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.  Continue reading