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.
Category: poem
Character and Conduct – 8 March – Work – To Cure the Voice of the Past
THE real work of charity is not to afford facilities to the poor to lower their standard, but to step in when calamity threatens and prevent it from falling.
Character and Conduct – 7 March – Work – Effective Reforms
IF you are moved with a vague desire to help men be better men, you must know that you can do it not by belabouring the evil but by training the good that there is in them.
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.
Character and Conduct – 6 March – Work – Effective Reforms
The thought of spiritual poverty, of spiritual destitution, is crowded out. We treat the symptoms and neglect the disease itself.
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.
Character and Conduct – 5 March – Doing our Best
EXPERIENCE shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
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.
Character and Conduct – 4 March – The Sacredness of Work
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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?
Suffolk Vicar 