Character and Conduct – 2 March – Wasted Emotions
We are guilty to man, and guilty before God, when we lose our powers in inglorious ease.
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 16
This task of welcome is not easy. Tiggers will continue to be bouncy and some will wonder if they have ”been strengthened quite enough.”
Character and Conduct – 1 March – The Sin of Indifference
…lay aside, not all comfort – men have a right to that – but that excess of it which softens and enfeebles the soul
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 15
Those of us who are in a position to be generous can easily fall into the trap of thinking that those who receive help should ‘like it or lump it’.
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 14
We don’t want to look at the dark and dirty places but want to fill our magazines and screen with pictures of the glitzy and the glamorous to take our thoughts away from the pain of others. But looking away from something doesn’t make it disappear.
Character and Conduct – 28 February – Responsibility
‘What hast thou done? Smooth religionist, orthodox Churchman, scrupulous Levite, befringed and bephylacteried Pharisee, thy brother’s blood crieth to Me from the ground!’
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 13
As the good book reminds us, when we ask we will receive (Matthew 7v8) but this promise does not give us permission to take without asking nor use someone else’s precious possessions as our playthings.
Character and Conduct – 27 February – Courage
SELF-TRUST is the essence of heroism.
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 12
Too often the ones who should be ‘making plain the way of the LORD’ are cluttering it with Points of Order, procedural motions, and a general antagonism towards their siblings.
Character and Conduct – 26 February – Falterers
AFTER all, depend upon it, it is better to be worn out with work in a thronged community, than to perish in inaction in a stagnant solitude:
