Being and Doing – 11 February – Character
perfect freedom can only be won by the discipline of self-restraint.
perfect freedom can only be won by the discipline of self-restraint.
…her ideal was not to claim justice, but to give tenderness.
NOBLENESS of character is nothing but steady love of good, and steady scorn of evil.
Let us do our work as well,
Both the unseen and the seen;
There is nothing possible to a human soul greater than simple faithfulness.
We shall never know what it is to live in peace, until we know what it is to live thoroughly in the present.
TIME indeed is a sacred gift, and each day is a little life.
Let present rapture, comfort, ease,
As heaven shall bid them, come and go:
The secret this of rest below.
At Epiphany we cannot all make offerings of Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh but we can give our hearts and with them our treasure, our worship and our failings.
When it comes to the birth of a child things are never ‘Quite what we had expected’
But even when things go wrong God has a plan