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Getting The Drift

by | Jul 27, 2012 | sophia

‘Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding onto things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods. For moods will change, whatever view your reason takes. I know that by experience. Now that I am a Christian...

GET OVER IT

by | Jul 24, 2012 | sophia

It’s hard for a young man to take himself seriously in public. For example, to express grace towards a friend at a birthday party or a wedding: he risks being portrayed as pretentious or a kind of teacher’s pet. Nevertheless, the boy who will never risk being laughed...

Parent Trap

by | Jul 16, 2012 | sophia

Parents must be careful about the way they handle the instinct to shelter their children from criticism, from—in your face, no way of denying it—failure, and from being confronted by the successes of friends and siblings. Yes, it’s cruel and cheap to cultivate a...

Patience or Lies?

by | Jul 9, 2012 | sophia

When you’re being patient with someone who’s wandering down into some messy and immature hole it’s easy to get mixed up about whether you’re showing grace or actually just patronising their fears and failures. In other words, not doing the very...

Pure, Sweet Moments

by | Apr 3, 2012 | sophia

  In a family there are some things that are pure, sweet moments: like a nice cuppa, making a fuss over a birthday, going out for brekky or dinner, or even playing a board game and there's always a competitor for that moment. The delicate bit is knowing when...