The 60-Second Sabbath

Spirituality

  • The Vacuum

    Nature abhors a vacuum. When, on the cross,the darkening blood of Jesusspilled from its tubing,vacated his veins and arteries,escaped like rain,though wood-grained channels,onto and into the thirsty earth,what abhorred that emptiness,rushed to fill it? We did. Text and image ©… Continue reading

  • The Castle

    St. Teresa,Avilan mystic,mystery see-er,observer of God's loftiest grandeurand tiniest marvels,explains that my soulstands as a vast castle,a many-roomed mansion,an extraordinary, multi-storied highrise,gilded and jeweled. Given that–in the marvelously graced mindof this, our outwardly simple sister–my soulholds the essence of my… Continue reading

  • Flotsam

    Dis-identifyfrom your thoughts.You are not the things you think. Thoughts are your mind at work–    often obsessed,    often distracted,    often distressed,    often wrong. Your thoughts are not you;they are games your mind playsto amuse itself. Let… Continue reading

  • Answering the Call

    Do you hear that?It's loving calling you,calling you to let go. What's the worst that could happen?You could lose yourselfand find eternity. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Credo

    Sleep in the dark awarenessof God as God is–unknowable, waiting, ready. Here we find faith.    Here we lose self.        Here we become love. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Falling

    This feeling of falling through life–does everyone experience this? And when I near the bottom,will there be arms strong enoughto catch me? Will there be Someonewho wants to? Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading

  • Into the Stream of Consciousness

    Dipping my toein the stream of consciousnessI find it oddly cooling–soothing in a wayI didn't anticipate. Next the foot..and soon, stripping to nothing,I take the plunge–waters of cluttered, un-institutionalized freshnesswash over me,tumble me in their turbulent current,bracing,bruising,bathing,revealing… Is this dream or… Continue reading

  • God Said to Me

    From out of the cloud, God said to me,"I do not love the one you were.I do not love the one you are.I love the one you long to be." Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights… Continue reading

  • What I’m Looking For

    That thing you've been looking for?That feeling of completeness,    the wholeness,    that satisfaction that eludes you? Guess what!You already have it. You already arewhat you are looking for. Repeat after me:"I amwhat I am looking for." I amwhat… Continue reading

  • What I Am Not

    I am not these e-mails.I am not these phone calls.I am not the pages I edit.I am not these thoughts.I am not these desires.I am not these dreams. I am the spaciousness beyond. I will live and breathe and have… Continue reading