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Photography 2
I[click]take pictures[click]to meet[click]God. Text and image © 2014 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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The Puzzle
Pieces of my lifeeverywhere… …forgotten at the bottom of my sock drawer, slipped behind the shoe rack in the closet, abandoned in the cabinet in the guest bathroom, tucked into a photo album, lost among WordPerfect docs on my hard… Continue reading
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That for Which I Long
With every bone, muscle and nerve of this body,I long for God. I ache. Before, above, beyond, beneath– sacred mist, eternal fog, holy haze, the Known, the Unknown, the Unknowable– I want… Continue reading
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The Meaning of Life
Two martinis now within,just east of my usual filters,I'm close to asking the waiter,"What do you think is the meaning of life?What, in you opinion, is the point?" My notebook and penwait open beside my now-empty plate. But alas,perhaps a… Continue reading
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Water of Life
follow with methis rainbow that leadsto the mountain of dreams worth the schlep at the end of that arcwaits a swimming hole;we bathe therein the holy water of life that for which you thirst…eternally quenched Text and image © 2012… Continue reading
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Toward the Sacred
How clear to youis your path to the sacred? For some it comeson a Sunday morningin a sunlit pew. For many of usit's an ocean voyage more obscure,with a sense of the sadnessof the long sea that pilgrims sail,not clear… Continue reading
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Belonging
I want the one I loveto find his place,his happiness,his passion. I know he has found his home,as I have found mine,here where our hearts rest together. But like us all,he yearns to be neededby the world beyond. We are… Continue reading