The 60-Second Sabbath

prayer

  • Photography 3

    Today,let a good photobe your textfor prayer. Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Another Prayer for Lent

    Let me stretch imagination.Let me break the curve of time.Let me cut through bland conventionto the heart of the divine. Let me say the unexpected.Let me be what's on God's mind.Let me leap to reach the heavenI have faith is… Continue reading

  • Prayer for Lent

    Lead us, O God,from the beautiful,to the good,to the true. Lead us, O God,from what catches the eye and the breath,to what quickens the heart and the conscience,to what cradles the soul and the spirit. Lead us, O God,ever deeperinto… Continue reading

  • Thursday Prayer

    Good morning, Creator: Take pity on me, I pray,that today the disorienting winds of rearrangement    won't leave me again upside-down in the bushes,but instead may speed me further toward    tomorrows cupping contentment. Amen. Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All… Continue reading

  • Another Serenity Prayer

    God, just for today,grant me freedomfrom the desire to beanywhere or anyone else. Amen. Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • O Antiphons: Branch

        O come, thou Branch of Jesse's tree,    free them from Satan's tyranny    that trust thy mighty power to save,    and give them victory o'er the grave. You come to free us.Oh, and there is so… Continue reading

  • Training

    This is practice,and I am in training. I meditate,and the mind jumpslike a caffeinated kangaroo. This is practice,and I am in training. I breathe,feel the equanimity,until someone in the officepushes one of my several buttons. This is practice,and I am… Continue reading

  • Something to Be Said

    There is somethingto be saidfor standingon your own two feet. There is moreto be saidfor kneelingon your own two knees. Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • How God Speaks

    We strive and struggleto hear God speaking,when we ourselvesare God speaking, our very existence,God's shout of "Yes!" to creation,our very selves, first and foremost,an invitationto divine dialogue.  We are the prose and poetry of God,God's sonnet and soliloquy,God's laughter and passionate… Continue reading

  • Hanukkah Wish #5

    May you love yourself…exactly as you are. Do not expect more of yourselfthan you expect of others. If you are kind to anyone this seasonlet it be you. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.   Continue reading