Becoming Real: 40 Days with the Velveteen Rabbit Day 9 – Friday after First Sunday of Lent – 26th February2010 To Read: The Rabbit sighed. He thought it would be a long time before this magic called Real happened to him. He longed to become Real, to know what it felt like; and yet… Continue reading Becoming Real – Day 9
Becoming Real: 40 Days with the Velveteen Rabbit Day 8 – Thursday after First Sunday of Lent – 25th February2010 To Read: “I suppose youare real?” said the Rabbit. And then he wished he had not said it, for he thought the Skin Horse might be sensitive. But the Skin Horse only smiled. “The… Continue reading Becoming Real – Day 8
Becoming Real: 40 Days with the Velveteen Rabbit Day 7 – Wednesday after First Sunday of Lent – 24th February2010 To Read: “Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?” “It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a… Continue reading Becoming Real – Day 7
Becoming Real: 40 Days with the Velveteen Rabbit Day 6 – Tuesday after First Sunday of Lent – 23rd February2010 To Read: “What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz… Continue reading Becoming Real – Day 6
Becoming Real: 40 Days with the Velveteen Rabbit Day 5 – Monday after First Sunday of Lent – 22nd February2010 To Read: The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat was bald in patches and showed the seams underneath, and most… Continue reading Becoming Real – Day 5
Becoming Real: 40 Days with the Velveteen Rabbit Day 4 – Saturday after Ash Wednesday – 20th February 2010 To Read: The model boat, who had lived through two seasons and lost most of his paint, caught the tone from them and never missed an opportunity of referring to his rigging in technical terms. The… Continue reading Becoming Real – Day 4
Becoming Real: 40 Days with the Velveteen Rabbit Day 3 – Friday after Ash Wednesday – 19th February 2010 To Read: For a long time he lived in the toy cupboard or on the nursery floor, and no one thought very much about him. He was naturally shy, and being only made of velveteen, some… Continue reading Becoming Real – Day 3
Becoming Real: 40 Days with the Velveteen Rabbit Day 2 – Thursday after Ash Wednesday – 18th February 2010 To Read: There were other things in the stocking, nuts and oranges and a toy engine, and chocolate almonds and a clockwork mouse, but the Rabbit was quite the best of all. For at least two… Continue reading Becoming Real – Day 2
Becoming Real: 40 Days with the Velveteen Rabbit What follows, in this post and several others, are the words of a Lent Course I wrote in 2010. Though titled a Lent Course it may be useful to read at other times Day 1 – Ash Wednesday – Wednesday 17th February 2010 To Read: There was… Continue reading Becoming Real – Day 1
God on a Plate – a poem for Christmas A babe in a manger displacing the hay Oxen and Ass were shuffled away How would they eat? What for a meal? When all that remained was shepherd-made zeal The babe grew to manhood Turned famine to food And fresh water wine Surely this, is something… Continue reading God on a Plate
