Sometimes, perhaps flippantly, when something has not turned out quite as expected a wag will say. ‘Well. it’s the thought that counts.’ Never a truer word has been said. It is all about the thought that we put into our daily tasks of service, even though they may seem ever so mundane, that counts.
The thought of spiritual poverty, of spiritual destitution, is crowded out. We treat the symptoms and neglect the disease itself.
This generosity with strings attached is becoming more and more prevalent in our society. Too often those who can offer help want the whole world to know what their left hands and right hands are doing.
EXPERIENCE shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
If we have no dates we have no roots, we need them to help us grow up good.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
How about the next time we meet an Eeyore Christian we resist the temptation to ignore them, to belittle them, to try and gee them up, to gossip about them, and instead sit and listen?
OUR Lord always brings back to mind that doing is more than feeling.
We are guilty to man, and guilty before God, when we lose our powers in inglorious ease.
This task of welcome is not easy. Tiggers will continue to be bouncy and some will wonder if they have ”been strengthened quite enough.”
Suffolk Vicar 