Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 25 – Loneliness Then there are the lonely and the sorrowful who say that they cannot bear or share in the happiness of this time (Christmas). The contrast is too great for the lonely, and the associations too bitter for the sorrowful; and indeed I am grieved for them. The image of happy… Continue reading Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 25 – Loneliness
Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 24 – Hope God does not give us strange flowers every year, When the spring winds blow o’er the pleasant places The same dear things lift up the same fair faces: The violet is here. It all comes back: the odour, grace and hue: Each sweet relation of its life repeated… Continue reading Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 24 – Hope
Whispers of His Power – Amy Carmichael [Note: each year I aim to post a Daily Blog of quotes from faithful Christians to help encourage us on our journey. In previous year these have been compendiums of mostly Victorian Christians. During 2026 I aim to publish daily reflections on Scripture from Amy Carmichael of Dohnavur.[i] A missionary from… Continue reading Whispers of His Power – Introduction
Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 23 – Spiritual Fellowship Love can never give an adequate account of itself; it is invariably a dealing with infinite values, and when we come to that we come to God. That is what we are doing now where true love is; can death do anything to alter it? No, indeed, it can but shatter… Continue reading Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 23 – Spiritual Fellowship
For this Christmas, for our Last Christmas, and especially for that final Christmas when we will sing in tune with heaven.
We live because Christ was born amongst us.
We can depart in peace because Christ came to live among us.
Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 22 – Spiritual Fellowship Granted that time will heal most wounds, it still remains true that the deeper the nature the more there is to heal, and that there is something holy in the sorrow of wounded love. …..I do wish with all my heart that every mourner in the world… Continue reading Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 22 – Spiritual Fellowship
Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 21 – The Dead For the dead we have always with us, being enshrined in our hearts; so that when we say the places that once knew them know them no more, we except one place that is consecrated for ever to their blessed remembrance, (Follen) Those who are gone you have. Those… Continue reading Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 21 – The Dead
The angel announces a saviour, a way of salvation, that transcends the old laws of punishment and revenge replacing it with the gentle healing touch from the hand of a baby.
Jesu is the ointment for our healing, the salve for our souls.
Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 20 – The Dead Mourn not for her as gathered to the Past. Her past has power upon the coming years, And she herself, O mourner, will outlast Her dust, this marble, and all human tears. (Tennyson) I hate the black negation of the bier, And wish the dead, as happier… Continue reading Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 20 – The Dead
Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 19 – Love and Death To the faithful, death is only the last best sacrament. However imperfectly, with whatever grievous failures, they have held their lives, they have not held them as their own; and neither terror nor dismay is in their hearts when the call comes to relinquish them. They know that… Continue reading Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 19 – Love and Death
Suffolk Vicar 