by Guy Sayles | May 22, 2009 |
Singer Jimmy Buffet once said, “I think that we ought to declare a universal ‘Ten-Deep-Breaths Day’ so that the whole world could stop and everybody just catch their breath.” Breathless describes a lot of us, doesn’t it? Running hard and fast...
by Guy Sayles | May 18, 2009 |
As you know, the Chinese language is comprised of pictographs; and, according to Wayne Muller, the symbol for busy is composed of two characters, heart and killing (Sabbath, p. 3). Too much busyness for too long is deadly, because it starves, stresses, and, finally,...
by Guy Sayles | May 12, 2009 |
As you probably know, the great American writer, Carl Sandburg, spent the last years of his life on a lovely farm not far from Asheville. A television interviewer once asked this fine writer, “What, in your opinion, is the ugliest word in the English language?”...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 28, 2009 |
Sometimes, when I am hitting a string of lousy shots in racquetball—skipping them to the floor or hitting them so high on the wall that even my opponents who are just as middle-aged as I am can easily return them—I will throw my hand up in the air, call a time-out,...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 15, 2009 |
One of my favorite William Stafford poems is “The Little Ways that Encourage Good Fortune.” It concerns wisdom, which Stafford describes as “having things right in your life and knowing why.”Wisdom is having things right in your life and...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 11, 2009 |
Some reflections I shared at our Good Friday service today:On this Good Friday, I simply want to tell you the man on the cross is to me. And, as I have before, I borrow a phrase from an Anglican bishop [John A. T. Robinson] to tell you that, for me, Jesus is the human...
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