by Guy Sayles | Jun 9, 2016 |
Music is everywhere. The creation itself pulses with pizzazz and praise; the universe dances to the jazz of joy. We can hear the music in the trumpeting cry of an elephant, the playful greeting of a dolphin, and the upward call of a soaring hawk. It’s in the contented...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 5, 2016 |
Downtown Huntington was hopping yesterday. There were bike races on some of the city’s central streets, a festival in the river park, and Comic Con at the Big Sandy Arena.There were “civilian” pedestrians like me, dressed for the alternating hot sunshine and...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 2, 2016 |
For the last few days, I’ve had the chance to take long walks on Holden Beach, and I’ve been enchanted by the interactions of parents with their children: a mother gingerly wading out into the ocean with a baby girl resting in her arms; another mother teaching her...
by Guy Sayles | May 26, 2016 |
Hank Williams asked one of the profoundest questions I’ve heard: “Why can’t I free your doubtful mind and melt your cold, cold heart?” He plaintively sang: The more I learn to care for youThe more we drift apart.Why can’t I free your...
by Guy Sayles | May 24, 2016 |
My post on the Center for Healthy Churches websiteOne of the most significant “leadership” books I’ve read in the last couple of years is A Beautiful Constraint: How to Transform Your Limitations into Advantages and Why It’s Everyone’s Business (Wiley, 2016). ...
by Guy Sayles | May 19, 2016 |
A wise woman of the Spirit, Evelyn Underhill, claimed that most of us spend our lives “conjugating three verbs: to want, to have, and to do. Craving, clutching, and fussing, we are kept in perpetual unrest.”To want. Sometimes we can name our desires: friendship,...
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