Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 34 – Saturday after 5th Sunday of Lent To Read: ‘Tich,’ I said, what were you asking God about real questions for? ‘Oh, it’s just sad, that’s all.’ ‘What’s sad?’ ‘People is.’ ‘I see. What’s sad about people?’ ‘People ought to get more wise when they grow… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 34
Precept & Practice – APRIL 11 – Happy Memories Show me the home of a boy, and I will prophesy concerning his future without a tremor of uncertainty. G. H. Hepworth O ye, who have young children, if possible give them happy memories! Fill their earliest years with bright pictures. A great historian many centuries ago wrote it… Continue reading Precept & Practice – APRIL 11 – Happy Memories
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 33 – Friday after 5th Sunday of Lent To Read: The strange insistence of Sunday-school teacher Miss Haynes and the Rev. Castle on using the words ‘seeing’ and ‘knowing’ in such a clumsy way was a very sore point with Anna. The Rev. Castle talked about ‘seeing’… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 33
Precept & Practice – APRIL 10 – The Place of Peace Home is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division. In so far as it is not this, it is not home; so far as the anxieties of the outer life penetrate into it, and the inconsistently… Continue reading Precept & Practice – APRIL 10 – The Place of Peace
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 32 – Thursday after 5th Sunday of Lent To Read: Anna was certain that heaven was, certain that angels and cherubs and things like that were real and she knew more or less what they were like, at least she knew what they were not like.… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 32
….Wherever this picture is realised, it is not by microscopic solicitude of spirit, but by comprehension of mind, and enlargement of heart; by that breadth and nicety of moral view which discerns everything in due proportion, and in avoiding an intense elaboration of trifles,
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 31 – Wednesday after 5th Sunday of Lent To Read: When you’re little you ‘understand’ Mister God. He sits up there on his throne, a golden one of course; he has got whiskers and a crown and everyone is singing hymns like mad to him. God is useful and… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 31
– alas, we have too little in our national character of the quality which this word expresses his inborn, his constant amenity.
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 30 – Tuesday after 5th Sunday of Lent To Read: ‘What’s all this got to do with Sunday School Teacher? She certainly knows about the difference.’ ‘Oh yes’, nodded Anna. ‘So what’s the problem?’ ‘When I find out things it makes the difference bigger and Mister God… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 30
The trivial services of social life are best performed, and the lesser particles of domestic happiness are most skilfully organised, by the deepest and the fairest heart.
Suffolk Vicar 