Plant patience in the garden of thy soul!
The roots are bitter, but the fruits are sweet;
And when, at last, it stands, a tree complete,
Beneath its tender shade the burning heat
And burden of the day shall lose control-
Plant patience in the garden of thy soul!
Jesus is our Midwife and like a mother looks on us every day with love.
Jesus, with His own body, defeats the power of death and sin and bears us all into the promise of the Life after Life.
Keep me from wrath, let it seem e’er so right; my wrath will never work Thy righteousness. Incline mine heart to take men’s wrongs as Thou tak’st mine.
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 22 – Saturday after 3rd Sunday of Lent To Read: She pointed to a broken-off stump of an iron railing. ‘I want somebody to write about that, but they don’t see it.’ ‘Perhaps they are too busy’, I suggested. ‘No it ain’t. They don’t see it. They don’t know… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 22
Change of occupation, not cessation of occupation, is the best cure for weary brain and quivering nerves, and so it is that a hobby, really enjoyed and regularly cultivated, is a valuable as well as an agreeable possession.
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 21 – Friday after 3rd Sunday of Lent To Read: Anna’s other major discovery of that summer grew into a very complex activity, for our house suddenly blossomed with little blue notebooks and slips of paper. When confronted with something new, Anna would accost the nearest passer-by,… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 21
More men die from worry than from overwork; more stuff themselves to death than die of starvation.
(Note: in 19th Century England)
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 20 – Thursday after 3rd Sunday of Lent To Read: The first day she held flower seeds in her hand was such a time. There was no need for words; her actions and thoughts spoke for themselves. There she was in front of some wild flowers, kneeling down with… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 20
The springs of all issues, good and bad, are in the heart and mind. Give me a perfect body to begin with, and if God’s laws are my laws I shall keep that body perfect to the end of life’s pilgrimage.
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 19 – Wednesday after 3rd Sunday of Lent To Read: Suddenly I heard the gruff shout of a park-keeper. I turned, and there she was, kneeling in front of a flower-bed. I had forgotten to tell her to Keep off the Grass. Anna would not have given way to… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna
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