Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 24
Like the Grinch we must learn that friendship and joy is never about possessions and gifts and stuff, but about each other. When we finally realise that all our hearts will ‘Grow three sizes’.
Category: Lent
Character and Conduct – 11 March – The Hallowing of Work
…nothing mars or misleads the influence that issues from a pure and humble and unselfish character.
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 23
Perhaps our Beloved’s words of rebuke to the Storm are as much to us as to the wind and the waves that immediately obey?
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 22
Our brokenness, our emptiness, regardless of how we came to be broken and empty, are exactly the gifts our Beloved requires of us. Nothing else is needed.
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 20
Sometimes, perhaps flippantly, when something has not turned out quite as expected a wag will say. ‘Well. it’s the thought that counts.’ Never a truer word has been said. It is all about the thought that we put into our daily tasks of service, even though they may seem ever so mundane, that counts.
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 19
This generosity with strings attached is becoming more and more prevalent in our society. Too often those who can offer help want the whole world to know what their left hands and right hands are doing.
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 18
If we have no dates we have no roots, we need them to help us grow up good.
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 17
How about the next time we meet an Eeyore Christian we resist the temptation to ignore them, to belittle them, to try and gee them up, to gossip about them, and instead sit and listen?
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 15
Those of us who are in a position to be generous can easily fall into the trap of thinking that those who receive help should ‘like it or lump it’.
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 14
We don’t want to look at the dark and dirty places but want to fill our magazines and screen with pictures of the glitzy and the glamorous to take our thoughts away from the pain of others. But looking away from something doesn’t make it disappear.
Suffolk Vicar 