Being and Doing – 9 February – Character
NOBLENESS of character is nothing but steady love of good, and steady scorn of evil.
NOBLENESS of character is nothing but steady love of good, and steady scorn of evil.
Let us do our work as well,
Both the unseen and the seen;
There is nothing possible to a human soul greater than simple faithfulness.
We shall never know what it is to live in peace, until we know what it is to live thoroughly in the present.
TIME indeed is a sacred gift, and each day is a little life.
Let present rapture, comfort, ease,
As heaven shall bid them, come and go:
The secret this of rest below.
At Epiphany we cannot all make offerings of Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh but we can give our hearts and with them our treasure, our worship and our failings.
When it comes to the birth of a child things are never ‘Quite what we had expected’
But even when things go wrong God has a plan
It’s all in the timing?
Is the Christian faith about ‘Pie in the Sky when you die’ and waiting for that day to arrive or is it about living eternity now?
Survivors of Sexual Abuse carry their wounds, often hidden deep within them, for the whole of their life. What hope for healing is there for them, for the church, and for a society that blames victims rather than their attackers?