by Guy Sayles | Jun 9, 2015 |
Is time on our side? Or is the clock against us?Some people are on good terms with time. They’re able to gauge how long a task will take, and they’ve learned how important it is to schedule a bit of margin into their days so that they can accommodate...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 3, 2015 |
As I walked downtown this past Sunday morning, no buskers played their fiddles, performed magic tricks, or shaped balloon sculptures. No trolley tours rolled by. Children weren’t playing in “Splashville’s” fountains. Bocce Ball games hadn’t started in...
by Guy Sayles | May 31, 2015 |
“Threes” seem to pervade our experience.In The Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe, Michael Schneider noted that ancient mathematicians thought of the numbers “one” and “two” as the parents of all the other numbers. “Three” was their firstborn....
by Guy Sayles | May 28, 2015 |
Sometimes, the tragedy, violence, suffering, and despair which fill the world overwhelm me, and I can’t help but ask, “Where is God?”There’s no greater theological and emotional problem than “the problem of evil”: If God is all-loving and all-powerful, why do evil,...
by Guy Sayles | May 26, 2015 |
My post for today’s Center for Healthy Churches Newsletter:http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e7d471250200d4bcdf5c4b404&id=0f4a798a41&e=6568f513d5
by Guy Sayles | May 24, 2015 |
Priest and paleontologist, Teilhard de Chardin said that “Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God.”Jesus was a person of unmistakable and contagious joy which flowed from his unswerving conviction that God is love and loves everyone—no exceptions, no...
by Guy Sayles | May 21, 2015 |
At the corner of College Street and Haywood Road yesterday, near Mayfels’ Restaurant, a rail-thin young man, wearing a Santa hat over his shoulder-length hair and sweating profusely in the bright May midday sun, screeched out “Silent Night” on his not-well-tuned...
by Guy Sayles | May 19, 2015 |
In the Book of Common Prayer, Collect 57, “For Guidance,” asks “that in all our works begun, continued, and ended in you, we may glorify your holy Name.” I am intrigued especially by the challenge to “end our works in God.” That phrase raises the possibility of...
by Guy Sayles | May 14, 2015 |
Early in my college years, I struggled to reclaim faith. At least that’s what the struggle seemed to be about as I was living through it. Looking back, it seems more likely that I was actually struggling for a way to let myself be reclaimed by a loving...
by Guy Sayles | May 7, 2015 |
In his book, The Return of the Prodigal Son, Henri Nouwen wrote: “Every moment of each day I have the chance to choose between cynicism and joy. . . . Increasingly I discover that every choice for joy in turn reveals more joy and offers more reason to make life a true...
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