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:...
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