Gsus Saves

A bright orange guitar pick with Gsus Saves on it.

My office manager handed me this guitar pick earlier this week — bright orange, with the words “Gsus Saves” and a guitar chord chart printed right on it. I laughed out loud at first. It’s clever, right? A pun that strums right at the intersection of faith and music.

But the longer I held it in my hand, the more I realized — there’s actually a little theology in this tiny triangle of plastic.

On one side, there’s the Gsus chord — short for “G suspended.” In music, a suspended chord leaves something unresolved. It hangs there, full of tension, waiting to move toward resolution. It’s beautiful and unfinished at the same time. It creates space — space for wondering, for listening, for the next note.

And then, below it, the word “Saves.”

It’s funny how that word sits beneath something unresolved. Because faith is often like that — a bit suspended, a little unresolved, a mixture of what we know and what we can’t quite name yet.

Sometimes, we need to pick apart our theology, just like a guitarist might pick apart a chord. We listen closely, string by string, asking what still rings true and what might need tuning. There’s value in questioning, in taking apart old assumptions, in exploring the unresolved places of our faith.

But there’s also a time when we need a little orthodoxy — a steady rhythm to anchor us. Sometimes we need to strum the whole chord and let it ring. We need to remember that even when our understanding of God feels suspended, God’s love is not.

Gsus saves. Even when our theology is a bit tangled. Even when our hearts are full of dissonance. Even when our songs are half-written.

So maybe this little pick is more than a pun — maybe it’s a prayer. A reminder that faith, like music, lives in both tension and harmony. We don’t have to have every note figured out. We just have to keep playing — trusting that God will bring it all into tune in time.