Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 24 – Tuesday after 4th Sunday of Lent To Read: ‘Sometimes’, said Anna, ‘growed-ups make kids have bits of glass.’ ‘Why would they want to do that?’ I asked. ‘So they can make the kids do something they want them to.’ ‘You mean frighten them?’ ‘Yes.… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 24
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 23 – Monday after 4th Sunday of Lent To Read: [Note: here and later ‘bits of glass’ refers to the pieces of a kaleidoscope that Anna used to base her thoughts on] Mister God most certainly enjoyed it, but then Mister God didn’t at all mind making… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 23
Plant patience in the garden of thy soul!
The roots are bitter, but the fruits are sweet;
And when, at last, it stands, a tree complete,
Beneath its tender shade the burning heat
And burden of the day shall lose control-
Plant patience in the garden of thy soul!
Jesus is our Midwife and like a mother looks on us every day with love.
Jesus, with His own body, defeats the power of death and sin and bears us all into the promise of the Life after Life.
Keep me from wrath, let it seem e’er so right; my wrath will never work Thy righteousness. Incline mine heart to take men’s wrongs as Thou tak’st mine.
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 22 – Saturday after 3rd Sunday of Lent To Read: She pointed to a broken-off stump of an iron railing. ‘I want somebody to write about that, but they don’t see it.’ ‘Perhaps they are too busy’, I suggested. ‘No it ain’t. They don’t see it. They don’t know… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 22
Change of occupation, not cessation of occupation, is the best cure for weary brain and quivering nerves, and so it is that a hobby, really enjoyed and regularly cultivated, is a valuable as well as an agreeable possession.
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 21 – Friday after 3rd Sunday of Lent To Read: Anna’s other major discovery of that summer grew into a very complex activity, for our house suddenly blossomed with little blue notebooks and slips of paper. When confronted with something new, Anna would accost the nearest passer-by,… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 21
More men die from worry than from overwork; more stuff themselves to death than die of starvation.
(Note: in 19th Century England)
Suffolk Vicar 