The 60-Second Sabbath

responsibility

  • Moving II

    From within the few,    still-taped boxes,most of which display    the orange, Home-Depot logo,muffled voices ask,    "Why are we still packed?"  "Just stop," I say.    "Be thankful you're here.We shall all find our place…    eventually."  Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights… Continue reading

  • User’s Manual

    I'm looking for my user's manual,the one I'm sure my parents were givenwhen someone bundled me upand sent me homefrom the Lila J. Post Memorial Hospitalin Battle Creek, Michigan,60 years ago,the manual describing care and upkeep,feeding,cleaning,avoiding undo wear and tear.… Continue reading

  • No Warranty

    I'm sorry,but who told you,life should be easy? Clearly you have not readthe instruction manual. For the first two years or soit will appear is ifit's all about you,and those around youwill allow you this illusion.But from then on,you'll be… Continue reading

  • WWJS

    WWJSWho would Jesus shoot? WAWWJCWhich assult weapon would Jesus carry? He lived in a worldas dangerous as ours,this Prince of Peace, then took a bulletto save it. We'd be doomedif he'd returned fire for fire. "Father, forgive them–they know not… Continue reading

  • Luke 10:38-42

    Martha:    Words do not the windows wash. Mary:     But words the weary soul can cleanse. Martha:    Words do not the dishes clean. Mary:    But words both time and fear suspend. Martha:    Silent contemplation bores. Mary: … Continue reading

  • Stopping by a Wall in the Early Morning

    Whose pants are these? I think I know.His home is up a block or so.My little Nikon thinks it queerThat I should snap a photo here. Why drape them so? At whose behest?Seems lacking logic at its bestFor jeans to… Continue reading

  • Lent

    L is for the lunch nobody packed for me;E is for the emptiness,    not only of my stomach,    but of my future;N is for the nourisment I lack,    physically, emotionally;T is for the traffic flying past this… Continue reading

  • Insomnia

    An insomniacafloat on a seaof unanswered e-mails and looming deadlines,sleep eludes me. I struggle to keep this burdensome cargofrom swamping my cockleshell of unsteady bravado. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.   Continue reading

  • Peculiar Reality

    It's a peculiar reality: We do nothing without God.God does nothing without us. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.    Continue reading

  • The Cloak of Cultural Convention

    Christians have alwayswrapped themselvesin the cloak of cultural convention: When the culture wore the coat of slavery,the church wore the coat of slavery. When the culture wore the coat of segregation,the church wore the coat of segregation. When the culture… Continue reading