Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 2 – Thursday after Ash Wednesday To Read: I took out a Woodbine and lit up and offered her the match to blow out.  She blew, and I was sprayed with bits of sausage.  This little accident produced such a reaction in her that I felt that I… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 2

The precept of the law is always ‘do’;  that of the Gospel is always ‘be.’   ‘To be’ is higher than ‘to do,’ because it embraces ‘to do’ within it.

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 1 – Ash Wednesday To Read: My life with Anna began on such a [foggy] night.  I was nineteen at the time, prowling the streets and alleys with my usual supply of hot dogs, the street lights with their foggy haloes showing dark formless shapes moving out… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 1 – Ash Wednesday

Christ is our Example:  Christ is not our Model.   You might copy the life of Christ:  make Him a model in every act:  and yet you might be not one whit more of a Christian than before. 

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 0 – Shrove Tuesday To Read:  From the Introduction by Vernon Sproxton ….some readers may remain incredulous. They will ask, ‘Is it true?’  Now I happen to believe that it is true in the way they are asking the question.  But then I know Fynn.  I have seen the documents… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Shrove Tuesday

We are not damned for doing wrong, but for not doing right;  Christ would never hear of negative morality;  ‘thou shall’ was ever his word, with which he superseded thou shall not.

The really devout man has a horror of evil, but he has a still greater love of that which is good;  he is more set on doing what is right than avoiding what is wrong. 

Thou shalt not rise by grieving over the irremediable past, but by remedying the present.

There’s a grace of wise forgetfulness,
The while we forward reach and onward press,
Let the dead past be buried.