….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.
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 29 – Monday after 5th Sunday of Lent To Read: One day I was stopped by Sunday School Teacher. Sunday School Teacher asked me, no, told me, to instruct Anna to behave herself in the class. I asked what it was that Anna had done or had not… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 29
There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.
An open, tolerant, and kindly temper, that welcomes confidence, that overlooks faults, that makes much of any good in other men, that easily forgives wrong; that is a part of any ordinary notion of manliness.
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 28 – Saturday after 4th Sunday of Lent To Read: ‘You awake, Fynn?’ ‘What’s up, Tich?’ ‘Full up!’ ‘Oh.’ A little sob brought the guards [The cat and the dog] tramping up my chest in order to size up the situation. The sniffs lasted a few moments longer whilst… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 28
Love is the great healing power of the universe.
