by Guy Sayles | Jan 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
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 | Uncategorized
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 | Uncategorized
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 | Uncategorized
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 | Uncategorized
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...
by Guy Sayles | Jan 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
Jackson Browne sang: I want to live in the world not inside my head. . . To open my eyes and wake up alive in the world To open my eyes and fully arrive in the world. Me too. I want to hear the blues singer on the street and to tap my feet to bluegrass in a...
by Guy Sayles | Jan 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
Most of us know something about the insidious effects of speed; the relentlessly hurried pace and increasingly hassled pressure of our lives aren’t good for us. From early in the morning until late in the evening, a lot of us sprint from one thing to...
by Guy Sayles | Dec 31, 2013 | Uncategorized
Here is my benediction from the last Sunday of the year. The idea (and phrase) to “bless the year” came from John O’Donnohue. His blessing of the year is different from mine, but there are echoes of his here, especially in the phrase “bless the year for all you have...
by Guy Sayles | Dec 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
Increasingly, I think that “growing up” means moving from childishness to childlikeness. So, one of my hopes and intentions for the New Year is to become more childlike. I want to live with more wonder, openness, playfulness and, most of all,...
by Guy Sayles | Dec 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Gospel of John compressed the Christmas story into a single and shimmering sentence: “The Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s unique son, full of grace and truth.”’ No peasant parents, singing angels,...
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