Springtime is meant to feel like a fresh start, but if the headlines have you feeling more depleted than renewed, you’re not alone. For anyone searching for a quieter, more grounded way to process the noise, the late Dr. Pieter Noomen left behind a deeply personal body of work that’s worth a look — and it’s all free at http://www.wordsforall.org.

Dr. Noomen, a minister and licensed psychotherapist who passed away in 2019, spent years documenting what he described as direct communication with a spiritual presence he called the “One Who is Life.” Rather than leaning on traditional religious language, he chose to write about his experiences without the word “God,” instead inviting readers into something more open-ended: a personal, label-free relationship with what he referred to as the One-Who-Is-The-Totality-Of-All-Existence.

In his own words: “I can only say that the information came from a presence on my innermost spiritual level I was in communication with for some time. The words seem the result of my spirit merging with the spirit of life It/Her/Himself.”

The site organizes his work into 12 writings, each exploring a different facet of what he called the “Positive State.” A central thread runs through all of it — the belief that every form of life flows from one shared source, and that connecting to that source is something available to every human being, no spiritual résumé required.

One excerpt from his Wisdoms of the Week captures the tone perfectly: “We all know that anything can go wrong anytime: in nature, parts of our body, relationships and, of course, technical equipment. Even our mind can suddenly take a dip. All these wisdoms state that Life Itself is Love, however it may be battered and damaged. This may be hard to hold on to in days of breakdowns and misery. Yet when we do just that, holding on to all Life’s true nature being Love, it brings us ‘home’ and is healing; spiritually, mentally and perhaps even physically.”

Born in the Netherlands, Dr. Noomen completed doctoral studies in theology and pastoral psychology at the Free University of Amsterdam before serving as senior minister of three Protestant churches. He later worked as a psychotherapist in Los Angeles, where he focused on mental health issues including suicide prevention and hospice care. That blend of clinical training and spiritual exploration gives his writing a thoughtful weight — it doesn’t feel like dogma, and it doesn’t feel like self-help. It feels like notes from someone who genuinely sat with the big questions and wrote down what he found.

If any of this resonates, the entire collection is free to read at http://www.wordsforall.org. Spend some time with it, take what’s useful, and leave the rest. That, in a way, seems to be the whole point.