Character and Conduct – 5 April – Accidie
…depression always implies physical or moral weakness, and is therefore never to be tolerated so long as one can struggle against it.
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Character and Conduct – 4 April – Irritability
…most nervous, irritable states of temper are the mere physical result of a used-up condition.
Character and Conduct – 3 April – Irritability
Our friends are nice people, after all; the little things that annoyed us look ridiculous by bright sunshine; and we are fortunate individuals.
Character and Conduct – 2 April – Comfort’s Art
How can we live and think that any one has trouble – piercing trouble – and we could help them and never try?
Character and Conduct – 31 March – Hypochondriacs
‘My dear sir, there are times when I know I am possessed of the Devil, and then I never let myself speak!’
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Easter Day
Our Beloved in leaving us does not leave us desolate but leaves reminders of his presence. Perhaps not in an enchanted place but in ordinary things
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 40
To be able to provide a home for another is a precious gift, to know that our Beloved provides a home for us makes all our challenges, whether they involve squatting bishops or not, melt away.
Character and Conduct – 30 March – Lessons of Suffering
TO have suffered much is like knowing many languages. You have learnt to understand all, and to make yourself intelligible to all.
Character and Conduct – 29 March – Invalids
The sick-bed or the prison is as welcome as the harvest-field or the battlefield, when once your soul has come to value as the end of life the privilege of seeking and of finding Him.
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 39
Our Beloved looks upon us in the midst of all the mess of our sins and, not ‘blinching’ at all, demonstrates his love by stretching out His arms to embrace the whole world on the tree of Calvary.
