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but for not doing right; Christ would never hear of negative morality; ‘thou shall’ was ever his word, with which he superseded thou shall not.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.
We are not called to live in some sort of Holy Huddle protected from all the woes of this wicked world but instead journey with Jesus to Gethsemane, to Calvary, and to the hope brought with the Empty Tomb of Easter Day.
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.
Faith ought ever to be a sanguine, cheerful thing; and perhaps in practical life we could not give a better account of faith than by saying, that it is, amidst much failure, having the heart to try again.
Be penitent, and prayerful, but discourage looking back; we cannot bring the past again; reject it, and forget it.
