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Insights and Reflections on Life's Intersections

The Wisdom and Mercy of Limits

by Guy Sayles | July 14, 2025 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Val Vesa, Unsplash In Still Life, the first of her Inspector Armand Gamache mysteries, Louise Penny has him say: “There are four things that lead to wisdom. . . . They are four sentences we learn to say and mean . . . . I don’t know. I need help. I’m sorry. I was...

We Don’t All Follow the Same Jesus

by Guy Sayles | June 15, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Chagall, White Crucifixion Over the last several years, I’ve watched churches (and families) become bitterly divided by politics. I’ve offered support to clergy who have felt battered by congregants who insisted that their pastors support openly a MAGA agenda or else...

A Morning Walk, an Unsettled World, and a Proimise

by Guy Sayles | May 31, 2025 | Uncategorized | 4 Comments

This morning, the sky over Asheville was clear and blue, with a few bright white cottony clouds. The air was cool; there was a mostly gentle, sometimes brisk, breeze. Walking in downtown was a pleasure. I resisted, as I’m trying to do lately, immediately poking...

Holy Week in London

by Guy Sayles | April 29, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

During Holy Week this year, Anita and I took a long-dreamed-of trip to London. We traveled with our son, Eliot, and his wife Tatyana, and being with them added immeasurably to the joy we experienced. Surprisingly, the weather was sunny and warm nearly the whole time...

Too Weary to Change?

by Guy Sayles | March 28, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

M Cowie, Unsplash These days, laments are often the only prayers I have. I’m simultaneously shocked and unsurprised at the capriciousness, incompetence, and cruelty of political leaders whose vision of the nation and the world is clouded by greed, prejudice, and...

Love, Not Fear

by Guy Sayles | March 16, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

https://unsplash.com/@tama66 “Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions,” the poet Hafiz said. It’s cheapest only in the sense that it is the shabbiest, least hospitable, and most uncomfortable. In another sense, fear...

The Temptation to Deny Jesus

by Guy Sayles | March 8, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

When I was a boy, I worried that I would deny Jesus by saying the wrong thing about him. Now, I’m aware that I’m far more likely to deny him by acting in ways that betray his ways and his will. In the church of my childhood, an occasional visiting preacher would ask...

When the Storm Comes: Finding and Hope and Humanity in the Aftermath of Helene

by Guy Sayles | November 13, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Words aren’t adequate to express what I’ve witnessed since Helene stormed through Western North Carolina. The winds, mudslides, and floods left destruction, devastation, death, and despair behind. Homes and businesses were seriously damaged or washed away. Basic...

Grief of Jesus

by Guy Sayles | October 14, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Lately, I’ve imagined that I overhear the grief of Jesus. I hear strains of bewilderment and anger, loneliness and longing, protest and prayer. No wonder his followers have often used words from Isaiah to describe him as: “a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief.”...

Simplicity and Boldness

by Guy Sayles | August 1, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Sometimes there’s a lot that needs to be said, but I’m unable to say much at all. There are so many problems to ponder, perspectives to consider, and questions to ask. My ponderings seem shallow, though. My perspectives are commonplace. My questions aren’t original;...

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