There’s a BBC period drama series that comes on the PBS channel on Sunday nights at 10:00. Each week, I look forward to the unfolding stories, involving nurse-midwives, some of whom are religious sisters, from a fictional Anglican Convent called Nonatus House; they provide nursing care and counseling, to the poor, women (and their families),…
For Your Reflection
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.
To Be As A Weaned Child
I have been contemplating the meaning of a particular psalm in the last couple of days. The truth is, I have known this Psalm…131, word for word, since 1984. It is the psalm every student must learn, upon entering The Holy Woods – the name by which past and present students affectionately and reverently, refer…
For Your Reflection
Psalm 131King James Version 1Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. 2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child. 3 Let Israel…
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