Being and Doing – 16 March – Contentment
God Almighty loves thee better and more wisely than thou dost thyself.
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A vicar from Suffolk who writes things down to stop him endlessly talking about them
Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 20
Resisting the Prowling Lion – 40 Days with Screwtape Day 20 – Thursday after 3rd Sunday of Lent To Read: From The Screwtape Letters: Screwtape, a senior demon, is offering advice to Wormwood his nephew, an apprentice demon. The language he uses is ‘upside down’ referring to God as ‘the Enemy’ and the devil as ‘Our… Continue reading Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 20
Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 19
Having given everything away to love and serve God the work, though difficult is not demanding, though dealing with dark places is full of light and, even when walking amongst intense sadness there is to be found an immense amount of joy!
Being and Doing – 15 March – Cheerfulness
God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 18
‘Nothing’ when not faced down with belief gobbles up everything!
Being and Doing – 14 March – Looking on the Bright Side
Few of us, indeed, realise the wonderful privilege of living; the blessings we inherit; the glories and beauties of the universe, which is our own if we choose to have it so;
Being and Doing – 13 March – Looking on the Bright Side
MANY of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them ‘ curses.’
Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 17
…Sometimes, perversely, I beg for a big sin – because then I have to wake up, run home, and seek forgiveness and succour in the ever welcoming bosom of God’s love.
Being and Doing – 12 March – Cheerfulness
THE way some persons lay on their life layer after layer of blackness is pitiable; they nurse their grief for the wrongs of men till they have no pleasure but in brooding over darkness.
Being and Doing – 11 March – Looking on the Dark Side
O brothers, let us leave the shame and sin
Of taking vainly, in a plaintive mood,
Suffolk Vicar 