Wholeness
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Senior Cats
They are now eight.How can a creature of eight yearsbe "senior"?They eat "senior" food.They go for annual "senior" exams. My other cat(companion of my adult life)lived to be nineteen.If eight means "senior,"what was she? I am fifty-eight,a week from fifty-nine.What… Continue reading
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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
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The Embrace of One
I have a friendwhom I want to be happywith his simple, beautiful self.I want him to sense his completenesseven when he is alone,and to ease into that alonenessand find joy and peacein solitude. There is nothing missingin the essence of… Continue reading
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Selfness
Someone has suggestedthere is a third way: somewhere between selfishness and selflessness,lies a placewhere the need to care for ourselvesbalances the need to care for others. It is the way of selfness. I need to find this place of selfness,between… Continue reading
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Are You Free?
What qualities of your motherhave you absorbed into your personality?And have you done so by choice? What values of your fatherhave you incorporated into your worldview?And have you done so by choice? What teachings of your childhood faithhave you blended… Continue reading
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A Headline for the World
If, tomorrow morning, you had the opportunityto put your one, best line of adviceon the front page of every newspaper,or every website,across the globe,what would it be?If you could boil downto one two- to six-word headlinethe organzing concept of your… Continue reading
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God Dreams
Shhhh!Quiet.Enter on tiptoe:God sleeps. God dreams of a world of justice where none go hungry, where all have enough, where none are fearful, where all are embraced. God dreams of a world at peace. Text and… Continue reading
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The Well
In the corner of your gardenovergrown with weeds and grasseshides a well so long abandonedthat your spirit daily passesinches from its massive stoneworkclueless that its rusting bucketand the rope that's close to breakingcould in fact provide the waterthat your face… Continue reading
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Fabulous Apart
To be fabulous withfirst be fabulous apart. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading
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The Lord’s Prayer, Stanza 5
Let forgiveness flow,sweet and sticky like honey,oozing over us,spilling onto otherssmeared and gooey,forever gunking upthe machinery of resentment. Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. Continue reading