by Guy Sayles | Feb 2, 2014 |
From a statement I made to my friends at First Baptist Church in Asheville today: I need your prayers for wisdom and for courage as I deal with some hard news I have recently received. Over the last week or so, following an array of tests, I have learned that I have...
by Guy Sayles | Jan 31, 2014 |
In a NYT editorial earlier this week, David Brooks mentioned the music of Audrey Assad. I didn’t know about her or her music, but I tracked it down online. Among many lyrically, as well as musically, fine songs is “Show Me.” I find...
by Guy Sayles | Jan 29, 2014 |
Back in December, I posted a reflection on how the incarnation—God’s becoming flesh in Jesus—was a ground of assurance that we may trust the goodness and love of God. God is, the incarnation makes clear, like Jesus. Another crucial truth of the incarnation...
by Guy Sayles | Jan 26, 2014 |
Near the end of Toni Morrison’s novel, Beloved, Paul D., a freed slave, tells Sethe, a woman who escaped slavery but remains haunted by her memories of it: “Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.” We can be chained to...
by Guy Sayles | Jan 20, 2014 |
The writer most of know as the creator of The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, said: “If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the...
by Guy Sayles | Jan 17, 2014 |
Last Sunday morning, as did many Christians, we remembered the baptism of Jesus. We gave thanks for great gifts of grace and mercy which flow into us and surround us through our immersion in the love of God made known in Jesus’ life, teachings, death and...
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