The 60-Second Sabbath

Spirituality

  • Light

    Light suffuses him.It squeezes from his poreslike toothpaste from a million, microscopic tubes.It hurts, like reverse injections.He suffers light. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Failure

    Take risks. Failure is,at the very least,a place you're not in now. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • The Doors of the World

    The doors of the world–the ones between cultures,between peoples,between neighbors…who can open these?  Not the arrogant.Not those who enter uninvited.Not those with hands wet and slick with blood. To open the doors of the world,one first knocks,then listens,then serves,binds wounds,cradles… Continue reading

  • The Steady

    There are waysto be renewedby the ancient:stand silent and mindful    in a rank of redwood minarets,    beneath a sequined Montana night,    at the apex of a Mayan pyramid,    on the unsteady edge of an ocean's immensity, … Continue reading

  • Love’s Captive

    I wantto be vanquishedby love. I want loveto win. Love,take me captive. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.   Continue reading

  • John 16:12-13a, Part 1

    "Oh, yes, there's more,"Jesus said to his followers,"lots more–but there's only so muchthat you can absorbin any one parable,in any one lifetime of listening…" "But how, then, do we continue learning?" "The important thing now,"he replied,"is less the learningand more… Continue reading

  • The Table

    Stop wrestling with love,and let it win.Cry "Uncle!"and come join the family. There's a table already laid,large and laden for the lot of us. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Jacob and the Angel

    "I'm a pacifist,"said Jacob,when the angel showed upin his Spandex and mask."I won't fight you." Ignoring this,the angel grabbed Jacob around the waistand threw him to the ground. Jacob went limp."I won't fight you," he repeated."What part of this don't… Continue reading

  • The Face

    I cradle my brand-new grand niece,fresh from the other side,and look into her wide-open, unfocused brown eyes.Why would she so soon focus on earthly thingswhen she's just come from the Infinite,just looked eye-to-eye into the great and open Origin? At… Continue reading

  • Kingdom of Heaven

    We need not run from the future,    need not abandon ourselves    to the doomsayers and apocalyptic prophets,    those who read scripture    as an end-time move script    filled with CGI firestorms and floods,    with the righteous floating… Continue reading