home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve;  it is life’s undress rehearsal, its back-room, its dressing-room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse,

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 4 – Saturday after Ash Wednesday To Read: This little thing had the most splendid, the most beautiful, copper-coloured hair imaginable, and a face to match.  No painted cherub on some church ceiling was this child, but a smiling, giggling, squirming, real live child, her face alight… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 4

He who has no vision of eternity will never get a true hold of time. 

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 3 – Friday after Ash Wednesday To Read: About ten-thirty that evening, whilst she was sitting between my knees having an earnest conversation with Maggie, her rag-doll, I said, ‘Come on, Tich, it’s about time you , were in bed.  Where do you live?’ In a flat,… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 3

Precept & Practice – MARCH 6 – Sowing and Reaping Justice reigns in the moral world as equilibrium does in the physical world;  and the destiny of souls is but the perpetual result of their capabilities, their aspirations, and, consequently, of their works. Camille Flammarion Justice is the permanent Reality in life.    You reap what you sow… Continue reading Precept & Practice – MARCH 6 – Sowing and Reaping

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 2 – Thursday after Ash Wednesday To Read: I took out a Woodbine and lit up and offered her the match to blow out.  She blew, and I was sprayed with bits of sausage.  This little accident produced such a reaction in her that I felt that I… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 2

The precept of the law is always ‘do’;  that of the Gospel is always ‘be.’   ‘To be’ is higher than ‘to do,’ because it embraces ‘to do’ within it.

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 1 – Ash Wednesday To Read: My life with Anna began on such a [foggy] night.  I was nineteen at the time, prowling the streets and alleys with my usual supply of hot dogs, the street lights with their foggy haloes showing dark formless shapes moving out… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Day 1 – Ash Wednesday

Christ is our Example:  Christ is not our Model.   You might copy the life of Christ:  make Him a model in every act:  and yet you might be not one whit more of a Christian than before. 

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 0 – Shrove Tuesday To Read:  From the Introduction by Vernon Sproxton ….some readers may remain incredulous. They will ask, ‘Is it true?’  Now I happen to believe that it is true in the way they are asking the question.  But then I know Fynn.  I have seen the documents… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Shrove Tuesday