Character and Conduct – 26 July – Manners MANNERS aim to facilitate life, to get rid of all impediments. They aid our dealings and conversation, as a railway aids travelling, by getting rid of all the obstructions on the road. EMERSON DEFECT in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. EMERSON HE is beautiful in… Continue reading Character and Conduct – 26 July – Manners
Character and Conduct – 25 June – Judging PERHAPS it were better for most of us to complain less of being misunderstood, and to take more care that we do not misunderstand other people. It ought to give us pause at a time to remember that each one has a stock of cut-and-dry judgments on his… Continue reading Character and Conduct – 25 June – Judging
Whenever we put our own cares to one side and carry the weight of another’s grief we imitate Jesus who leads us through death to the life after life
Though rules and tradition help us access the wisdom and grace of the past we should not be in the business of allowing them to hinder us to answer the call to listen, to love, and to heal and that immediately.
The harvest of hate is a wasteland bearing nothing but dust and ashes. The fruit of inclusion is a rainbow of flowers that brings joy wherever it is allowed to bloom.
ONE false note will spoil the finest piece of music, and one little sin, as we deem it, may ruin the most promising character,
Surely there can be no ‘yeah but, no but, yeah’ if we dare to proclaim that we are Open to God, Open to All? After all isn’t the only response God makes to us ‘Yes and Amen’ ? (2 Cor.1v19-21). Can we offer any less? Can we, dare we, bear all this calumny and abuse and remain un-defended? Not biting back, refusing to turn away those who abuse us and others, and instead learn only to love and then love again?
For manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal nature, and of noble mind.
IF bitterness has crept into the heart in the friction of the busy day’s unguarded moments, be sure it steals away with the setting sun. Twilight is God’s interval for peace-making.
HE that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green.
Suffolk Vicar 