Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 40 – Holy Saturday To Read: I wanted to say more, a whole lot more, but she wasn’t listening any more, just smiling. The days burnt up like giant candles, and time melted, ran, and congealed into useless and hideous lumps. Two days after the funeral I… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 40 – Holy Saturday
A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will….
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 39 – Good Friday To Read: It was a beautiful sunny day. The street was full of kid noises. Laughter drowned the sounds of marching feet, when suddenly the world fell to pieces. One scream killed the laughter. It was Jackie’s. I turned around in time to catch her in my… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 39 – Good Friday
Our rash faults
Make trivial price of serious things we have,
Not knowing them, until we know their grave.
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 38 – Maundy Thursday To Read: ‘Fynn, I love you.’ When Anna said that every word was shattered by the fullness of meaning she packed into it. Her ‘I’ was a totality. Whatever this ‘I’ was for Anna was packed tight with being. Like the light that didn’t fray, Anna’s… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 38 – Maundy Thursday
Time hastens; therefore do to-day
Whatever kindly deed you may.
Time flies, suns rise, and shadows fall;
let it go by, lo! love is for ever over all.
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 37 – Wednesday in Holy Week To Read: Every minute of every day Anna lived, she totally accepted her life, and in accepting life, accepted death. Death was a fairly frequent topic of conversation with Anna – never morbid or anxious, simply something that would happen at… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 37
It comes far easier to scold our friend, in an angry moment, than to say how much we love, honour, and esteem him in a kindly mood.
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 36 – Tuesday in Holy Week To Read: MAYBE it was the fact that Anna and I had met at night that made the night-time so magic for us. Perhaps it was because the night-time could be, and so often was, so surprising. The multitudes of sights and… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 36
Christian simplicity should be our most beautiful adornment…..
Suffolk Vicar 