Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 17
…Sometimes, perversely, I beg for a big sin – because then I have to wake up, run home, and seek forgiveness and succour in the ever welcoming bosom of God’s love.
Being and Doing – 12 March – Cheerfulness
THE way some persons lay on their life layer after layer of blackness is pitiable; they nurse their grief for the wrongs of men till they have no pleasure but in brooding over darkness.
Being and Doing – 11 March – Looking on the Dark Side
O brothers, let us leave the shame and sin
Of taking vainly, in a plaintive mood,
Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 16
If the ‘demons’ of our life cannot turn us into hardened unrepentant egoists then they are more than happy to settle with small sins. After all banal sin remain sin.
Being and Doing – 10 March – Cheerfulness
HAPPINESS, and brightness in God’s service is a great gift and one that wins others to Him
Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 15
Whilst in this world we may be subject to troughs as well as crests but no matter how low the trough of despair may be, we are not faced with the prospect of emptiness but the wonderful possibility of being further filled!
Being and Doing – 9 March – Cheerfulness
let all men read in your face the happiness of a Christian that loves his Master
Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 14
How important it is to learn that the deep troughs of the undulations of the spiritual life are not darkness but are in fact the place from which we take the first steps of a deeper faith.
Resisting the Prowling Lion – Day 13
We want cattle who can become food:
He wants servants who can become sons.
We want to suck in,
He wants to give out.
We are empty and would be filled;
He is full and flows over.
Being and Doing – 8 March – Evil of Melancholy
WE should not sadden the harmless mirth of others by suffering our own melancholy to be seen
