by Guy Sayles | Oct 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
We all know the overworked cliché which defines insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” As worn and familiar as it is, we keep proving its essential wisdom.It happens in the groups of which we’re a part. With...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
Yesterday’s bright blue sky, streaked with long and thin white clouds, the shimmering sun, and the slight cooling breeze were such welcome gifts after days of ponderous grey air and pouring rain. With the clinging fog and veiling clouds evaporated from the...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
In my dream, I was scheduled to play golf with a friend. Never mind that I haven’t played golf in over a decade, gave my clubs away a few years ago, and wore-out my golf shoes by using them for yard work (they aerated the lawn while I walked!). I scrambled...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
Many of us have a troubled relationship with time.Carl Honore wrote an interesting book, In Praise of Slowness: How a Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed, the idea for which came to him as he rushed through an airport and saw a book entitled The...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
Hope is sinewy, tenacious, and determined. It gives us strength when ours is gone, carries us into the future when we’ve been knocked-off our feet by the disappointments of the present, and makes it possible for us to trust that God is with us even when we feel...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
Near the end of my morning walk, I passed two men who were ambling in the opposite direction and having a lively conversation with each other. The street was busy and noisy, but I heard one phrase: “Yeah, he was so unusually kind to me that it made me feel kind...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
Here’s the address/sermon I gave at the Gardner Webb University School ofDivinity this past Monday. It was based, in part, on the story of Jesus’ encounter with the a Samaritan woman at “Jacob’s well” (John 4).I surely understand...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
What follows is the text for my sermon at First Presbyterian Church of Asheville this past Sunday. It’s based on the second part of the lectionary Gospel for the day, Mark 7:31-37.I’d like for you to meet my boyhood friend, Jimmy. He lived down the road,...
by Guy Sayles | Sep 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
There’s more than a year to go before the presidential election, and, already, I am weary with the campaign. When I can manage simply to view the candidates as performers, some talented and others not so much, and hear their speeches as scripts in an over-the-top...
by Guy Sayles | Aug 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
This past Friday afternoon, after two full days of New Faculty Orientation, I took a long walk around the Mars Hill University campus. I thought about—and prayed for—students soon-to-return (or coming for the first time) to campus, and of the hopes and fears...
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