Precept & Practice – APRIL 11 – Happy Memories Show me the home of a boy, and I will prophesy concerning his future without a tremor of uncertainty. G. H. Hepworth O ye, who have young children, if possible give them happy memories!   Fill their earliest years with bright pictures.   A great historian many centuries ago wrote it… Continue reading Precept & Practice – APRIL 11 – Happy Memories

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 33 – Friday after 5th Sunday of Lent  To Read: The strange insistence of Sunday-school teacher Miss Haynes and the Rev. Castle on using the words ‘seeing’ and ‘knowing’ in such a clumsy way was a very sore point with Anna.  The Rev. Castle talked about ‘seeing’… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 33

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 32 – Thursday after 5th Sunday of Lent  To Read: Anna was certain that heaven was, certain that angels and cherubs and things like that were real and she knew more or less what they were like, at least she knew what they were not like.… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 32

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 31 – Wednesday after 5th Sunday of Lent  To Read: When you’re little you ‘understand’ Mister God.  He sits up there on his throne, a golden one of course;  he has got whiskers and a crown and everyone is singing hymns like mad to him.  God is useful and… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 31

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 30 – Tuesday after 5th Sunday of Lent  To Read: ‘What’s all this got to do with Sunday School Teacher?  She certainly knows about the difference.’ ‘Oh yes’, nodded Anna. ‘So what’s the problem?’ ‘When I find out things it makes the difference bigger and Mister God… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 30

The trivial services of social life are best performed, and the lesser particles of domestic happiness are most skilfully organised, by the deepest and the fairest heart.

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 29 – Monday after 5th Sunday of Lent To Read: One day I was stopped by Sunday School Teacher.  Sunday School Teacher asked me, no, told me, to instruct Anna to behave herself in the class.  I asked what it was that Anna had done or had not… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 29

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

An open, tolerant, and kindly temper, that welcomes confidence, that overlooks faults, that makes much of any good in other men, that easily forgives wrong;  that is a part of any ordinary notion of manliness.

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 28 – Saturday after 4th Sunday of Lent  To Read: ‘You awake, Fynn?’ ‘What’s up, Tich?’ ‘Full up!’ ‘Oh.’ A little sob brought the guards [The cat and the dog] tramping up my chest in order to size up the situation.  The sniffs lasted a few moments longer whilst… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 28