Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 15
Those of us who are in a position to be generous can easily fall into the trap of thinking that those who receive help should ‘like it or lump it’.
Those of us who are in a position to be generous can easily fall into the trap of thinking that those who receive help should ‘like it or lump it’.
We don’t want to look at the dark and dirty places but want to fill our magazines and screen with pictures of the glitzy and the glamorous to take our thoughts away from the pain of others. But looking away from something doesn’t make it disappear.
‘What hast thou done? Smooth religionist, orthodox Churchman, scrupulous Levite, befringed and bephylacteried Pharisee, thy brother’s blood crieth to Me from the ground!’
As the good book reminds us, when we ask we will receive (Matthew 7v8) but this promise does not give us permission to take without asking nor use someone else’s precious possessions as our playthings.
SELF-TRUST is the essence of heroism.
Too often the ones who should be ‘making plain the way of the LORD’ are cluttering it with Points of Order, procedural motions, and a general antagonism towards their siblings.
AFTER all, depend upon it, it is better to be worn out with work in a thronged community, than to perish in inaction in a stagnant solitude:
Too often we find ourselves so busy and, to be honest, self-involved, that we can’t stop and check that everyone is really all-right.
IT is better by a noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils which we anticipate, than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what may happen.
THE man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.