Precept & Practice – MARCH 25 – Body and Soul
Every Christian must recognise the fact that the laws of health are the laws of God as much as are the precepts of the Decalogue.
Every Christian must recognise the fact that the laws of health are the laws of God as much as are the precepts of the Decalogue.
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 18 – Tuesday after 3rd Sunday of Lent To Read: …From St Paul’s we moved off towards Hyde Park. After all these months I was beginning to be rather proud of the fact that more and more I was learning to think along with Anna. I was beginning… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 18
It is one of the moral uses of the night that it gives the world anew to us every morning, and of sleep that it makes life a daily creation.
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 17 – Monday after 3rd Sunday of Lent To Read: Our first excursion outside the East End was ‘up the other end’. For anyone not familiar with that term it simply means west of Aldgate pump. On this occasion she was dressed in a tartan skirt with… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 17
There are but….. two only remedies for the irritation that comes of these exhaustions: the habit of silence towards men, and of speech towards God.
How to Repent:
1. Stop doing the bad stuff.
2. Start doing the good stuff.
3. Give away the fruit of our penitence.
(We do not join the ‘God Squad’ for our benefit alone.)
If only cross people would have the courage of faith.
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 16 – Saturday after 2nd Sunday of Lent To Read: ‘There’s another way that Mister God is different.’ We obviously hadn’t finished yet. ‘Mister God can know things and people from the inside too. We only know them from the outside, don’t we? So you see, Fynn, people can’t talk… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 16
It is only when people rate us a little above our true standard that we can come up to it.
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 15 – Friday after 2nd Sunday of Lent To Read: The first salvo was enough for me; it all needed a bit of thinking about, but I wasn’t going to be spared the rest of her artillery. ‘Fynn, why do people have fights and wars and things?’ I… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 15