Recently, the Williams Telos Board invited members of the Telos community to reflect on 2020 and share their challenges, comforts, and joys. We sent out an anonymous form and created a visual representation of the collected responses. If you haven’t already, we encourage you to take some time to think about your 2020 and check out … Continue reading “Reflections on 2020: Comfort & Joy”
At our Telos Thoughts meeting on Saturday, November 7, we had the chance to reflect on love and loss. Exploring an excerpt from book 4 of Augustine’s Confessions, we thought about temporal and eternal things we love and how they influence our personal lives. In the passage we read, Augustine acknowledges the dangers of focusing … Continue reading “Loving Temporal and Eternal Things: A Telos Thoughts Reflection”
How will I ever know YouYou are everything to meI feel You in a sweet embraceIn the piercing autumn breeze How will I ever understand YouSo worthy, so grandYet You came as a babe to saveAnd even now stretch out Your hand How will I ever know enough to love YouAs well as You love … Continue reading “Fullness”
We had a Telos Thoughts meeting on Saturday, October 10 where we listened to an excerpt from episode 2 of Take Me to Church, a podcast created and hosted by Dasol Lee ’21. After reflecting on some questions, we collaborated on a collage of ideas, issues, and themes we wanted the current Church to speak … Continue reading “Where is the Church?: A Telos Thoughts Reflection”
In the morning, I see sunlight The pillow feels cold on my cheekBut my body is warm under the blanketsNo alarmJust quiet Glug glug – flushing toiletChush chush – brushing teethSplash splash – washing face In the afternoon, I see mountains The mask feels sticky on my faceBut my body is refreshed by the fall … Continue reading “Waking Up Slowly: A Telos Thoughts Reflection”
The Williams Telos believes that every person is fearfully and wonderfully made in the image of God. The deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and countless others are not only injustices against the Black community but also injustices against the Creator. Black lives matter. We lament their deaths as a part of the … Continue reading “Black Lives Matter”
Sitting in the Rubble by Inez Tan Still, outwardly, I go to work, I cook my meals, I do my laundry, as though my life consisted of acts like these. Six of my friends lose a child, three get into car accidents, two survive shootings, and only one says, “It’s not a competition,” meaning we … Continue reading “Sitting in the Rubble, a Poem by Inez Tan ’12”
For the past couple of days, I’ve had a line from UPPERROOM’s song “Surrounded (Fight My Battles)” stuck in my head. There’s a table that You’ve prepared for me In the presence of my enemies In my head, I pictured that table, a table overflowing with good food – macaroni and cheese, broiled fish, 北京烤鸭 … Continue reading “The Table You’ve Prepared”
Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them. Psalm 126:5-6 When I read these Bible verses this morning, I was struck with a vivid image of a woman on her knees, sadly sowing … Continue reading “Planting Sorrow: An Artist’s Response to Psalm 126”
As my parents shared the news with me about how there was a new virus moving quickly through the streets of Wuhan, I stared at the screen, my eyes on the video call, but my mind elsewhere. A week later, when we called again, they began telling me about their friends who had contracted the … Continue reading “Lamenting my privilege in COVID-19: Thoughts of a student from Wuhan”
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