by Guy Sayles | Apr 4, 2014 |
As I make my slow way through this frequently labored and often labyrinthine Lenten season, I am grateful that Resurrection lures us toward the future which it has already opened-up. Light and hope stream into our present circumstances; they show us that love is...
by Guy Sayles | Mar 24, 2014 |
One of life’s crucial lessons is that we are responsible for how we use our ability to pay attention. We are stewards of our capacities to notice, to focus, and to consider people, the world around us, and God. We choose what to do with our...
by Guy Sayles | Mar 20, 2014 |
We learn some things sequentially, a step at a time: first the basics, then intermediate challenges and, only later, greater complexity. Like math, for instance: learn to count, to add, and to subtract; then, to multiply and divide. After this basic...
by Guy Sayles | Mar 11, 2014 |
“I know why the caged bird sings,” wrote Paul Laurence Dunbar. It is “a prayer the he sends from his heart’s deep core. . .a plea that upward to heaven he flings—I know why the caged bird sings.” Slaves in the cotton fields sang, “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,...
by Guy Sayles | Feb 24, 2014 |
In his novel, The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes has the narrator, Tony, ruefully compare his life to that of his old friend, Adrian: What did I know of life, I who had lived so carefully? Who had neither won nor lost, but just let life happen to him? ...
by Guy Sayles | Feb 20, 2014 |
In the model prayer Jesus gave to his followers, Jesus urged us to talk with God about, among other things, how the world isn’t yet the way God wants it to be: “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” Latin American theologian Leonardo...
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