spirit
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New Year’s Eve
Out with the crappy, the silly, the dumb,Out with what leaves us so distrait and numb.In with the clearer, the focused, the real,In with our opting to be and to feel. Here's to less TV, … Continue reading
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Those Who Live
Those who live from egocreate a God of ego,who, like them,counts, measures, judges, moralizes, critiques, condemns. Those who live from spiritknow the God whom Jesus knew, live in and with God, live in and with others, live… Continue reading
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The Monkey and the Tree
Your thoughtschatter like a monkey. You are not the monkey. You are themagnificent,stately,ancient tree,reaching to the clouds,rooted in the earth,offering shade,silent,strongand wise, through whose branchesraces the monkey. Shrug your massive branches,and let the monkey fall to the forest floor.He is… Continue reading
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Grand Opening
My mind: a spring leaf unfurls to the sun.My heart: a warmed seed opens to moist soil.My body: a dry chrysalis splits to new life. This is the momentof divine encounter:mind, heart and body,naked and willing,cupped and… Continue reading
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The Lover
If you are to take a lover,let it be your soul. It desires you;you lust for it. Be ravished by its mystery and power. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Your DNA
My child,enough hinting at your identity;by now,your deeds should have you knowingthat you carry within yousomething of divinityflowing–as you do–among, through uswith such luminosity. It's true:your DNAis not of this world. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All… Continue reading
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Taking Pictures
You can photograph to showcase pretty things.You can photograph to expose truth, irony or cruelty– the off-kilter and out-of-whack.You can photograph to bring forward the overlooked.You can photograph to remember.You can photograph to revision, recast, reinterpret.You can photograph for… Continue reading
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Amma, Abba, Beloved, Spirit
To these I relate as I meditate: Amma, Abba, Beloved, Spirit. These I repeat when I sense defeat: Amma, Abba, Beloved, Spirit These I breathe as I grace receive: … Continue reading
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“The Least Conspicuous Miracles”
Photographer Robert Adamsencourages us to walkat "a pace that allows regardfor the least conspicuous miracles."He urges us to develop"a kind of friendship with things." I wish I'd written those lines;I hear the poet within the photographer. And indeed, Adam's photographycaptures those least… Continue reading
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Advent 4
Giving voice to Winnie the Pooh,A. A. Milne wrote,“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon." I have the same experience of a Christmas tree. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading