Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 8
We can’t spend our whole lives reading ‘sustaining books’ whilst others work their fingers to the bone around us. In the Christian Life we cannot be Martha or Mary (Luke 10.38-42)[3] we must needs be both!
We can’t spend our whole lives reading ‘sustaining books’ whilst others work their fingers to the bone around us. In the Christian Life we cannot be Martha or Mary (Luke 10.38-42)[3] we must needs be both!
‘Getting thin’ as anyone slimming coach will let you know, takes a lifestyle change and learning a different attitude to ourselves as much as more care about our diet.
I (we?) need to learn, unlike Pooh Bear, to be a little more nimble and better able to response to human need before selfish greed.
Lent is given to us so that we may have the opportunity to love one another more deeply through the means of loving ourselves a little bit less.
Fasting is not about giving up on stuff but instead is about giving up on the direction we face.
We have power to become Children of God and are challenged to choose between being Childish – a brat of Beelzebub – or childlike – a Kidult of the Kingdom.
Character and Conduct – 23 January – Character of R.L. Stevenson I HAVE referred to his chivalry only to find that in reality I was thinking of every one of the whole group of attributes which are associated with that name. Loyalty, honesty, generosity, courage; courtesy, tenderness, and self-devotion; to impute no unworthy motives and to bear… Continue reading Character and Conduct – 23 January – Character of R.L. Stevenson
Character and Conduct – 8 January – The Footpath to Peace TO be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars; to be satisfied with your possessions, but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them; to… Continue reading Character and Conduct – 8 January – The Footpath to Peace
The church is called to be a ‘Son et Lumière’ presentation that lets the light of God’s love shine brightly and offer hope to a dark world.
Describing the gift of Christ at Christmas cannot be done by th use of one name alone.
We find in the manger a gift so large that it does indeed ‘hold the whole world in it’s hands’