Precept & Practice – MARCH 24 – The Balm of Sleep
It is one of the moral uses of the night that it gives the world anew to us every morning, and of sleep that it makes life a daily creation.
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 17
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 17 – Monday after 3rd Sunday of Lent To Read: Our first excursion outside the East End was ‘up the other end’. For anyone not familiar with that term it simply means west of Aldgate pump. On this occasion she was dressed in a tartan skirt with… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 17
Precept & Practice – MARCH 23 – Irritability
There are but….. two only remedies for the irritation that comes of these exhaustions: the habit of silence towards men, and of speech towards God.
Stick or Twist (aka Turn or Burn) – A Sermon
How to Repent:
1. Stop doing the bad stuff.
2. Start doing the good stuff.
3. Give away the fruit of our penitence.
(We do not join the ‘God Squad’ for our benefit alone.)
Precept & Practice – MARCH 22 – Irritability
If only cross people would have the courage of faith.
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 16
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 16 – Saturday after 2nd Sunday of Lent To Read: ‘There’s another way that Mister God is different.’ We obviously hadn’t finished yet. ‘Mister God can know things and people from the inside too. We only know them from the outside, don’t we? So you see, Fynn, people can’t talk… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 16
Precept & Practice – MARCH 21 – Conducting and Non-conducting
It is only when people rate us a little above our true standard that we can come up to it.
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 15
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 15 – Friday after 2nd Sunday of Lent To Read: The first salvo was enough for me; it all needed a bit of thinking about, but I wasn’t going to be spared the rest of her artillery. ‘Fynn, why do people have fights and wars and things?’ I… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 15
Precept & Practice – MARCH 20 – Detraction
Charity covereth the multitude of sins: but detraction does the very opposite: it drags off whatever robe may hide them, and sometimes with a jest, sometimes with a mock assumption of virtue, sometimes with malice prepense, and sometimes for mere lack of aught else to do, points out defects and descants on infirmities.
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 14
Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 14 – Thursday after 2nd Sunday of Lent To Read: It seemed to me to reduce itself to the fact that we were like God because of some similarities but God was not like us because of our difference. Her inner fires had refined her ideas, and… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 14
