Character and Conduct – 7 April – Accidie
YOU find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others?
Het Jy Geweet? A Sermon about Bubble Gum(ish)
John reminds us with his final few verses, in the culmination of his telling of the Good News, that the Gospel is not a case of ‘seeing is believing’ but, instead, in the words of our Beloved it is a case of ‘believing is not seeing’:
Character and Conduct – 6 April – Accidie
TRY it for a day, I beseech you, to preserve yourself in an easy and cheerful frame of mind.
Character and Conduct – 5 April – Accidie
…depression always implies physical or moral weakness, and is therefore never to be tolerated so long as one can struggle against it.
Character and Conduct – 4 April – Irritability
…most nervous, irritable states of temper are the mere physical result of a used-up condition.
Character and Conduct – 3 April – Irritability
Our friends are nice people, after all; the little things that annoyed us look ridiculous by bright sunshine; and we are fortunate individuals.
Character and Conduct – 2 April – Comfort’s Art
How can we live and think that any one has trouble – piercing trouble – and we could help them and never try?
Character and Conduct – 31 March/1 April Continued – Hypochondriacs
…the highest philosophy for persons thus afflicted is to understand themselves and their tendencies, to know that these fits of gloom and depression are just as much a form of disease as a fever or a toothache,
Character and Conduct – 31 March – Hypochondriacs
‘My dear sir, there are times when I know I am possessed of the Devil, and then I never let myself speak!’
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Easter Day
Our Beloved in leaving us does not leave us desolate but leaves reminders of his presence. Perhaps not in an enchanted place but in ordinary things
Suffolk Vicar 