Being and Doing – 29 December –New Leaves
My child, go, forward, abiding in faith, hope, and love, for lo, I am with you alway.
Being and Doing – 28 December – Inspiration
So, Lord, who erst didst stir with quickening power
My answering soul, achieve what Thou hast aimed;
Draw, for Thou hast drawn; hold, what Thou hast claimed;
Being and Doing – 27 December – High Failure
Aye, better to climb and fall,
Or sow though the yield be small;
Than to throw away day after day,
And never strive at all.
Being and Doing – 26 December – Rising out of Failure
The Past cannot be changed. The Future is yet in our power.
Name Above All Names – A Sermon
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’
Being and Doing – 25 December – Christmas
I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.
Being and Doing – 24 December – Rising out of Failure
IT IS a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failure.
Being and Doing – 23 December – Small Things
Nor deem the irrevocable Past
As wholly wasted, wholly vain,
If, rising on its wrecks, at last
To something nobler we attain.
Being and Doing – 22 December – Stepping-Stones
FAILURE after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
Being and Doing – 21 December – Stepping-Stones
Every temptation that we meet in the path of duty is another chance of filling our souls with the power of heaven.
Suffolk Vicar 