Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 16 – Saturday after 2nd Sunday of Lent To Read: ‘There’s another way that Mister God is different.’  We obviously hadn’t finished yet.  ‘Mister God can know things and people from the inside too.  We only know them from the outside, don’t we?  So you see, Fynn, people can’t talk… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 16

 It is only when people rate us a little above our true standard that we can come up to it. 

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 15 – Friday after 2nd Sunday of Lent To Read: The first salvo was enough for me;  it all needed a bit of thinking about, but I wasn’t going to be spared the rest of her artillery. ‘Fynn, why do people have fights and wars and things?’  I… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 15

Charity covereth the multitude of sins:  but detraction does the very opposite:  it drags off whatever robe may hide them, and sometimes with a jest, sometimes with a mock assumption of virtue, sometimes with malice prepense, and sometimes for mere lack of aught else to do, points out defects and descants on infirmities.

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 14 – Thursday after 2nd Sunday of Lent  To Read: It seemed to me to reduce itself to the fact that we were like God because of some similarities but God was not like us because of our difference.  Her inner fires had refined her ideas, and… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 14

An unhappy person can never make others happy.   The creators and governors of a home, who are themselves restless and inharmonious, cannot make harmony and peace.

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 13 – Wednesday after 2nd Sunday of Lent  To Read: [Continued form Day 12] ….I could see that this was going to be one of those times, but thank goodness she didn’t expect an answer to her question for she hurried on:  ‘Them pollywogs, I could love… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 13

…This came greatly of love;  not merely from the affection of the brethren for each other, but from a general lovingness, a capacity for Love, which, on coming into action, made them look differently on all they saw.  

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 12 – Tuesday after 2nd Sunday of Lent  To Read: ‘Mister God made everything, didn’t he?’ There was no point in saying that I didn’t really know.  I said ‘Yes’. ‘Even the dirt and the stars and the animals and the people and the trees and everything,… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 12

The wider our interests the broader our sympathies……. Blessed are those whose hearts beat to the throbs of humanity.