Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 30 – Tuesday after 5th Sunday of Lent  To Read: ‘What’s all this got to do with Sunday School Teacher?  She certainly knows about the difference.’ ‘Oh yes’, nodded Anna. ‘So what’s the problem?’ ‘When I find out things it makes the difference bigger and Mister God… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 30

The trivial services of social life are best performed, and the lesser particles of domestic happiness are most skilfully organised, by the deepest and the fairest heart.

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 29 – Monday after 5th Sunday of Lent To Read: One day I was stopped by Sunday School Teacher.  Sunday School Teacher asked me, no, told me, to instruct Anna to behave herself in the class.  I asked what it was that Anna had done or had not… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 29

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

An open, tolerant, and kindly temper, that welcomes confidence, that overlooks faults, that makes much of any good in other men, that easily forgives wrong;  that is a part of any ordinary notion of manliness.

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 28 – Saturday after 4th Sunday of Lent  To Read: ‘You awake, Fynn?’ ‘What’s up, Tich?’ ‘Full up!’ ‘Oh.’ A little sob brought the guards [The cat and the dog] tramping up my chest in order to size up the situation.  The sniffs lasted a few moments longer whilst… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 28

Love is the great healing power of the universe.

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 27 – Friday after 4th Sunday of Lent  To Read: The hoarding down the Broadway displayed in large red lettering:  ‘Do you want to be saved?  I wondered just how many people would say ‘Yes’ to that.  Had it read ‘Do you want to be safe?’ millions of people… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 27