Character and Conduct – 12 March – One by One
Spiritual statistics are unknown in the Gospels: they came in with St. Peter in the pardonable intoxication of success: they have since grown to be a mania.
Author: suffolkvicar
A vicar from Suffolk who writes things down to stop him endlessly talking about them
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 24
Like the Grinch we must learn that friendship and joy is never about possessions and gifts and stuff, but about each other. When we finally realise that all our hearts will ‘Grow three sizes’.
Character and Conduct – 11 March – The Hallowing of Work
…nothing mars or misleads the influence that issues from a pure and humble and unselfish character.
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 23
Perhaps our Beloved’s words of rebuke to the Storm are as much to us as to the wind and the waves that immediately obey?
Character and Conduct – 10 March – Evil is Wrought by Want of Thought
NO alms-giving of money is so helpful as alms-giving of care and thought; the giving of money without thought is indeed continually mischievous;
Character and Conduct – 9 March – Satan’s Opportunities
Deadly vices are nourished in the weak diseased bodies that are penned, day after day, in filthy crowded tenements of great cities.
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 22
Our brokenness, our emptiness, regardless of how we came to be broken and empty, are exactly the gifts our Beloved requires of us. Nothing else is needed.
Character and Conduct – 8 March – Work – To Cure the Voice of the Past
THE real work of charity is not to afford facilities to the poor to lower their standard, but to step in when calamity threatens and prevent it from falling.
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 21
The weal for our woe is the pain of our Beloved and all we can do in response is handover the broken pieces of our life and say, ‘Here Lord, take these broken pieces and make them whole.’
Character and Conduct – 7 March – Work – Effective Reforms
IF you are moved with a vague desire to help men be better men, you must know that you can do it not by belabouring the evil but by training the good that there is in them.
Suffolk Vicar 