Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 35 – Monday in Holy Week To Read: Anna searched for Mister God and her desire was for a better understanding of him. Anna’s search for Mister God was serious but gay, earnest but light-hearted, reverent but impudent, and single-minded and multi-tracked. That one and two made three… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 35
our Lord thoroughly furnishes each of His soldiers for his work, and places before each the task he has to do.
…So people borrowed a little freshness from each other and got really something out of each other’s sphere and story.
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 34 – Saturday after 5th Sunday of Lent To Read: ‘Tich,’ I said, what were you asking God about real questions for? ‘Oh, it’s just sad, that’s all.’ ‘What’s sad?’ ‘People is.’ ‘I see. What’s sad about people?’ ‘People ought to get more wise when they grow… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 34
Precept & Practice – APRIL 11 – Happy Memories Show me the home of a boy, and I will prophesy concerning his future without a tremor of uncertainty. G. H. Hepworth O ye, who have young children, if possible give them happy memories! Fill their earliest years with bright pictures. A great historian many centuries ago wrote it… Continue reading Precept & Practice – APRIL 11 – Happy Memories
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 33 – Friday after 5th Sunday of Lent To Read: The strange insistence of Sunday-school teacher Miss Haynes and the Rev. Castle on using the words ‘seeing’ and ‘knowing’ in such a clumsy way was a very sore point with Anna. The Rev. Castle talked about ‘seeing’… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 33
Precept & Practice – APRIL 10 – The Place of Peace Home is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division. In so far as it is not this, it is not home; so far as the anxieties of the outer life penetrate into it, and the inconsistently… Continue reading Precept & Practice – APRIL 10 – The Place of Peace
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 32 – Thursday after 5th Sunday of Lent To Read: Anna was certain that heaven was, certain that angels and cherubs and things like that were real and she knew more or less what they were like, at least she knew what they were not like.… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 32
….Wherever this picture is realised, it is not by microscopic solicitude of spirit, but by comprehension of mind, and enlargement of heart; by that breadth and nicety of moral view which discerns everything in due proportion, and in avoiding an intense elaboration of trifles,
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 31 – Wednesday after 5th Sunday of Lent To Read: When you’re little you ‘understand’ Mister God. He sits up there on his throne, a golden one of course; he has got whiskers and a crown and everyone is singing hymns like mad to him. God is useful and… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 31
Suffolk Vicar 