by Guy Sayles | Sep 18, 2014 |
Years ago, I preached a sermon I still regret: a rambling, ill-focused, and sneering screed of a Palm Sunday sermon in which I took cheap potshots at parades. I talked about out-of-tune bands, out-of-sync drill teams, and out-of-shape military veterans crammed into...
by Guy Sayles | Aug 27, 2014 |
The narrator of one of Alice Munro’s short stories described a middle aged woman this way: “Here she sat and saw her day as hurdles got through. Not much to her credit to go through her life thinking, Well, good, now that’s over, that’s over. What was she...
by Guy Sayles | Aug 12, 2014 |
In her memoir, The Long Loneliness, Dorothy Day said: “Joy and sorrow, life and death, always so close together!” My experience mirrors hers. I remember the first time Amanda performed in a little preschool choir—how happy I was to watch her stand with her...
by Guy Sayles | Jul 26, 2014 |
Fear often runs and ruins our lives. It causes us to hide our truest selves, hedge our deepest convictions, and hesitate to use our finest gifts. Fear makes us obsessed with security, status, and success. It makes us reluctant to venture beyond the walls...
by Guy Sayles | Jul 18, 2014 |
I got to the river today. I didn’t, as I often enjoy doing, head to Madison County and hike the mountain trails which ring the French Broad near Hot Springs. Instead, I parked my Subaru at the old “transfer station” and ambled along the path to the “Race...
by Guy Sayles | Jul 12, 2014 |
Love is not so much the opposite of hate or indifference as it is the opposite of fear. It is fear which gives rise to hate, indifference, and insensitivity, and also to isolation, loneliness, and uncertainty. “Perfect love casts out fear” (1 John 4:18)....
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