by Guy Sayles | Jul 15, 2015 |
In March of 2013, on my 56th birthday, I spent some time beside the French Broad River. In my journal, I wrote: I want to know more about the power of gentleness, the courage of vulnerability, the expansiveness of honored limits, the serious work humor can...
by Guy Sayles | Jul 9, 2015 |
Walls shelter or confine. Sheltering walls can make a home—a haven and refuge from the world. Confining walls can make a jail cell—a place of fear and isolation. How we feel about walls depends very much on what kind they are, why we live within them, who put us...
by Guy Sayles | Jul 3, 2015 |
On this Independence Day Weekend, I’m pondering the necessary tension between independence and interdependence. It’s a tension which the Apostle Paul described, as I mentioned yesterday, in Galatians 6: “Bear one another’s burdens, and in this way you will...
by Guy Sayles | Jul 2, 2015 |
Even fans of other ACC basketball team reluctantly admit that Dean Smith was a great basketball coach. A few years ago, Coach Smith co-wrote, with management expert Gerald Bell, The Carolina Way. “The Carolina Way” was his coaching philosophy, and it was also...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 29, 2015 |
Eight years ago, on sabbatical leave from my work as a pastor, I journeyed with my friend Terry to the Nada Hermitage in Crestone, CO, on the high desert plains nestled in Sangre de Cristo Mountains. I had planned to stay for a week, but, on the third day, I got word...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 25, 2015 |
My friend Terry and I are on our way to Nada Hermitage near Crestone, CO, nestled Sangre de Cristo mountains. On the road today, it struck me that some billboards attempt to offer aphorisms of wisdom—“highway proverbs.”An insurance company billboard claimed:...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 23, 2015 |
We have a tendency to see each other only superficially (which means we don’t really see each other at all). The Apostle Paul described this superficial seeing as “the human point of view.”From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 18, 2015 |
I grew up in metropolitan Atlanta in the 1960s and 1970’s (I graduated from a high school in south Fulton County in 1975). Atlanta was, of course, the hometown of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. So, when I was in elementary school, news about his work, about the...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 16, 2015 |
The little town of Erwin, TN has what it calls a “Linear Trail” which runs parallel to, and between, I-26 and the railroad tracks. It variously skirts the edge of an industrial park, borders a neighborhood, goes along open pasture, and, most beautifully,...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 11, 2015 |
We want to be known and to know, to be understood and to understand, and, most of all, to be loved and to love. We want to feel cradled close to our mother’s breast, to feel our father’s strong-gentle embrace, to hear her sing us into peaceful sleep, and to...
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