Character and Conduct – 14 March – Interruptions
…Tender and loving, in sympathy with the lowliest, forbearing with the most unreasonable, often interrupted, but never resenting, the sacrifice of self crowning all.
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Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 26
As a Gobby Vicar (Owl may be another of my patron ‘saints’!) I love the sound of my own voice and never pass up an opportunity to tell others what God really wants us (well, others) to do. I know that daily I need to stop, smell the petrichor, and listen to the voice of Our Beloved saying ‘Where are you’?
Character and Conduct – 13 March – One by One
LOVE cannot be content while any suffer,
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 25
Eventually he learns that his real ‘treasure’ is not to be found in ten (or even 10 hundred) pots of honey but instead it is amongst his friends in the 100 Aker Wood.
Character and Conduct – 12 March – One by One
Spiritual statistics are unknown in the Gospels: they came in with St. Peter in the pardonable intoxication of success: they have since grown to be a mania.
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’.
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?
Character and Conduct – 10 March – Evil is Wrought by Want of Thought
NO alms-giving of money is so helpful as alms-giving of care and thought; the giving of money without thought is indeed continually mischievous;
Character and Conduct – 9 March – Satan’s Opportunities
Deadly vices are nourished in the weak diseased bodies that are penned, day after day, in filthy crowded tenements of great cities.
Suffolk Vicar 