Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 12
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.
Character and Conduct – 26 February – Falterers
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:
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 11
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.
Character and Conduct – 25 February – Fear of Failure
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.
Character and Conduct – 24 February – Fear of Failure
THE man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
Character and Conduct – 23 February – Idleness
SHUN idleness, it is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 9
Having a friend to walk the journey with you does not mean that fear vanishes (Piglet is just as frightened as Pooh as they try to track down this ‘Hostile Animal’ but they travel together) but it does mean that anxiety is lessened, hearts beat less furiously and the journey continues.
Character and Conduct – 22 February – The Sin of Idleness
Character and Conduct – 22 February – The Sin of Idleness THERE is a certain amount of work to be done in this world. If any of us does not take his full share, he imposes that which he does not take on the shoulders of another; and the first cause of poverty, of disease, of misery… Continue reading Character and Conduct – 22 February – The Sin of Idleness
Hunny! 40 Days in the 100 Aker Wood – Day 8
We can’t spend our whole lives reading ‘sustaining books’ whilst others work their fingers to the bone around us. In the Christian Life we cannot be Martha or Mary (Luke 10.38-42)[3] we must needs be both!
Character and Conduct – 21 February – Work
Brilliant qualities may never be ours, but the homely virtues are within our reach, and character is built up not out of great intellectual gifts and splendid public achievements, but out of honesty, industry, thrift, kindness, courtesy, and gratitude, resting upon faith in God and love towards man.
Suffolk Vicar 