by Guy Sayles | Nov 24, 2010 |
One day, when his daughter Karen was still a young girl, writer Chris de Vinck, popped an Enlgish muffin in the toaster and went out the kitchen to check on a couple of things. He left Karen in the kitchen. A few moments later, he heard her cry out in pain, and he...
by Guy Sayles | Nov 18, 2010 |
I enjoy Jimmy Buffet’s music, even though I know he’s only an average musician, but one who has an above average ability to know what his audience wants and deliver it to them. I doubt there will be a symposium some day at which the works of Aaron Copland, Duke...
by Guy Sayles | Nov 13, 2010 |
Anxiety keeps us preoccupied with the future; it is the unsettled and unsatisfied feeling that comes from our worries and fears about tomorrow. At its root, of course, anxiety is our “dis-ease” over the fact that we will, one day, die; but most of the time it...
by Guy Sayles | Nov 9, 2010 |
Yesterday’s All Saints’ Day service invited us remember and give thanks for people whose deaths have brought us grief and invited us to find, in Jesus, comfort, reassurance, and love. Grief is, to say the least, complex. It keeps close company with other strong...
by Guy Sayles | Nov 4, 2010 |
Several years ago (July-August 1999), the magazine Fast Company ran a brief sidebar article that suggested people needed to create for themselves “an anti-bummer squad”–a team of friends and mentors—who would help in low times: “When you’re feeling uncreative,...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 28, 2010 |
The air is thick with anxiety these days: many people are tense, on edge, and agitated. I am sure that the ongoing economic uncertainty is part of it. The news about the economy, especially about employment, isn’t solid and positive enough to give people durable hope...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 26, 2010 |
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how to evaluate the quality of one’s beliefs. What questions do we need to ask about the faith we hold and which holds us? How do we go about taking stock of our faith’s ability to make sense out of life, to guide the ways we live, and...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 18, 2010 |
Novelist Walker Percy once said that his greatest fear for America was not that the nation would be defeated by some external enemy but by “weariness, boredom, cynicism, greed, and in the end helplessness before its great problems.” I have that concern not just for...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 15, 2010 |
Catholic priest Ronald Rollheieser says that there is, in all of us, “an unquenchable fire, a restlessness, a longing, a disquiet, a hunger, a loneliness, a gnawing nostalgia, a wildness that cannot be tamed, a congenital all-embracing ache.” He also believes, and I...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 11, 2010 |
When I was five or six years old, my Sunday School teacher suggested I memorize John 3:16. I did as she suggested and committed that familiar verse to memory (in the King James Version, the “approved” version in the church I attended): “For God so loved the world,...
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