travel
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Starting
I begin a new journey.I travel a new road. Smell the air, washed by the night rains. Feel the morning sun warming our hoping skin. Taste the raspberries, sweet and popping, growing outside the… Continue reading
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The Choice Is Yours
Catherine of Siena tells us, "It's heaven,all the way to heaven.It's hell,all the way to hell." Which road have you chosen? Jesus tells us, "The kingdom is here and now,within you,available to thosewith open eyes and hearts." Where do you… Continue reading
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The Path
So you,too,tread the pathto the sacred?Share with me your observations. I feel like a memberof a secret society,where identifying fellow-travelerstakes great sensitivityand the practical skillsof silence and patience,until the light of another–unexpectedly–touches me. And…? I anticipate (and find) joywhile being… 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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Please Stand Clear
"Please stand clear of the doors,"intones the recorded voice."You are delaying the departure of this train." Oh, yea?Well, maybe I'm not ready for departure…Maybe I like this momentbetween what I'm leavingand what lies ahead…Maybe the journey wasn't my idea…Maybe I… Continue reading
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The Cathedral
In this foreign, colonial square,amid fountains and pigeons,a sudden rainherds us to sanctuaryin the silent narthexof the town's old cathedral. Instantlywe transform from tourists to penitents–hushed, awed, immortal. Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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Job-Loss, Death, Etc.
From time to timethe vehicle of your life–the one you're driving even as you read this–disappears from the busy streets you navigate dailyand reappears on some empty, unknown, rural road. What landscape is this?Signs point to places you do not… Continue reading