Being and Doing – 3 March – Patience
In all these things, from childhood’s little troubles to the martyr’s sufferings, patience is the grace of God, whereby we endure evil for the love of God.
Author: Andrew The Dotty Rev
A vicar from Suffolk who writes things down to stop him endlessly talking about them
Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 9
One can understand Screwtape and his ilk hoping for war to be replaced by times of a peace which offers the hope of gentle indulgence which encourages us to calmly meander towards an inevitable death in which we refuse to believe.
Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 8
Nothing good, in God’s eternal plan, comes from war. However it is during war that I think we are most aware of our frailty, our failings and our capacity for cruelty.
Being and Doing – 2 March – Patience
to be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a most commendable and manly thing.
Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 7
…if we are ever to grow in our prayer life, each of us needs to learn how to dive deeper into the pool of God’s love and revelation. For it is in this way that we finally wake up from the false dream of ‘a sense of supplication’ into a deeper relationship with the God of love
Being and Doing – 1 March – Patience
ON the whole it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail, in all things.
Being and Doing – 28 February – Patience
IF thou wilt thyself be borne with, bear also with another.
Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 6
We need to learn that each of us is responsible for our own faith and it can never be the fault of an out-of-tune choir, a poorly prepared sermon, or a colicky baby in the children’s area, if we do not draw close to God.
Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 5
…being a young man I was ‘pounced’ on by other members of the congregation and, in fairly quick succession become a member of the choir, a Bible Study group, and had a seat on the Parochial Church Council. Rich ground for a large helping of ‘smugness á la Screwtape’!
Being and Doing – 27 February – Unselfishness
WHILE you have any love in you exercise it, make the most of it, feed it by the sight of good things and by imitation of good deeds.
