Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 29
The lesson I need to learn, and perhaps a few other readers who like me allow themselves to be hag-ridden by their vocations, is the one about to whom my time and days really belongs…
Author: suffolkvicar
A vicar from Suffolk who writes things down to stop him endlessly talking about them
Being and Doing – 26 March – Daily Consecration
…leaving the future always in God’s hands, sure that He can care for it better than we. Blessed trust!
Being and Doing – 25 March – Power to Serve
IF we measure our work for God by our own ability to do it, we must not be surprised if God takes us at our word, and the results are small;
Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 28
If we chose to love only when we have a reason to love it becomes a tool instead of a gift and a bribe instead of a pledge of devotion.
That is not love it is lust masquerading as concern.
Lux, Vita, Caritas – A Sermon for the 5th Sunday of Lent
Little by little, act of kindness by act of kindness, teardrop by teardrop, we, often seen as the powerless, have the possibility and the power to transform rejection, prejudice and judgment into ‘Something Beautiful for God’
Being and Doing – 24 March – Small Things
VERY slight deeds and words may have a sacramental efficacy, if we can cast our self-love behind us in order to do and say them.
Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 27
The journey through Lent is about fasting from things that are harmful. Being over particular, even if it is only in a ‘small’ way which ‘everyone’ should understand, is often about greed rather than denial
Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 26
When did we ever think that destroying and belittling someone else’s devotion, ritual, or way of prayer would help us grow any closer to God? Screwtape and his minions have certainly been hard at work!
Being and Doing – 23 March – Power to Serve
Do not fear that you are unworthy to serve Him, for serving Him in any way is the sure means to make you more worthy.
Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 25
The Word of God IS living and active and, if we but let it, it will pierce our souls and transform our hearts. But for that to happen both listener and preacher must be willing to be wounded by the Word.
Suffolk Vicar 