by Guy Sayles | Oct 7, 2010 |
“Busy and tired.” That’s how many of us describe ourselves. Harried, hassled, hurried. Tapped-out, stressed-out, and burned-out. Overbooked. Overworked. Overcommitted. Overwhelmed. Busy and tired. David Steindl-Rast has reminded us that the Chinese...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 4, 2010 |
We live in a time of upheaval and confusion. The world doesn’t look like it used to look. We wrestle with bewildering questions and deal with threatening issues. Rock-solid certainties have eroded before our eyes. Anxious for ourselves and afraid for our children, we...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 30, 2010 |
Journalist, actor and humorist Robert Benchley once said: “There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who don’t.” These days, almost everyone does. We seem addicted to dualistic and...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 28, 2010 |
Yesterday, we had the memorial service for my friend and, until her death, our current Deacon Chair, Dorothy Murphree. Dorothy was one of the most remarkable human beings I have ever known. She had a keen and agile mind, an insatiable curiosity, and a passion for...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 20, 2010 |
A person’s soul is like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon: its development should not be hurried; its emergence should not be rushed; its walls should not be forced open. Each soul has its own God-given rhythm, its own fullness of time. No one else should take a...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 15, 2010 |
After Deacons’ meeting Monday night, I drove to Atlanta so that I could be at the Mercer University School of Theology on Tuesday morning to be the guest presenter in a couple of classes and to preach in chapel. In the first class, I talked about the leader’s role in...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 8, 2010 |
We eventually learn that there isn’t much hope for us without forgiveness. Without forgiveness, we are bound to our failures, trapped in our guilt, and locked-up in isolation, with nothing to hold onto but our anger. That’s why, I think, the now-aging rock and roll...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 1, 2010 |
Walter Wangerin’s charming fable The Book of the Dun Cow is set in a chicken coop. One of my favorite scenes has the rooster Chauntecleer try to figure-out who has been stealing and eating the hen’s eggs. His prime suspect is John the Weasel, who has a long track...
by Guy Sayles | Aug 23, 2010 |
From time to time, I am drawn back to this brief poem by William Stafford. He offers wise words about wisdom. It’s not easy to be wise about wisdom, since, when we presume to be wise, we are often, at just those moments, blinded by our own folly; or because it’s hard...
by Guy Sayles | Aug 20, 2010 |
Did you hear about the monkeys who forgot how to climb and swing through the trees? Near the center of the country, there is a Dutch zoo where the orangutans had been kept from the trees for so long that they could not remember how to do what orangutans naturally do....
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