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Dear Friends,                                                                       July 2010

Three ‘Lozenges’
The religious writer Friedrich von Hügel once wrote that his practice of spending 15 minutes daily on particular readings had been one of the greatest sustenances and sources of calm for his life for over 40 years.  Von Hügel stressed we should not spend more than 15 minutes at any one time.  That would become ‘ordinary reading.’  The kind of reading that he recommended was one that he likened to letting a very slowly dissolving lozenge melt imperceptibly in your mouth.  This is chewing over an idea; letting it marinate in our mind; returning to it through a day; allowing it to become part of our thought processes.

I like the analogy of a lozenge!  With this inspiration in mind I thought that from time to time in my monthly Letter I would give you a few quotations that I have found it beneficial to meditate on myself.  I hope you find the same with these three that I share with you this month. 

‘One does not become a theologian simply by reading and studying, but rather through conflict, temptation, being condemned, dying and living.’  Martin Luther (1483 - 1546) 

‘Remember in the darkness what you learned in the light.’
Joseph Bayly (1920 - 1986)

‘God weeps with us that someday we may laugh with him.’ 
Jürgen Moltmann (b 1926) 

With warm good wishes,

Malcolm Ramsay

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