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David Rowe
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David Rowe
@mrdavidrowe
Anglican Priest, School Chaplain, Chestertonian ⚓️
I wrote 'The Proverbs of Middle-earth' (link below) & paraphrase Psalms.
Happy to pray for you. DMs open.
- I was teaching a class 'How to love your neighbour who is sad'. To illustrate 'secret sadnesses', I shared that our dog has just died, and started to well up a bit. One girl came up to me afterwards, looked me in the eye and gave me a piece of paper. "This is for you," she said.
- Replying to @mrdavidroweI love working with children, they are the best. Somewhere in her 4th Grade brain, she went, "I KNOW WHAT WILL MAKE HIM FEEL BETTER!!" drew it, and gave it to me, a perfect expression of how to love your neighbour who is sad.
- One of the most affecting war memorials I’ve seen. From Hungary.
- Replying to @mrdavidroweThat was yesterday – I opened it this morning. She's a lovely 4th Grader, very kind and thoughtful, so naturally I wondered how she had decided to comfort me in my distress. I unrolled the paper to reveal...
- 'Hopefulness is not a neutral position. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism. Each redemptive or loving act, as small as you like – such as reading to your little boy... keeps the Devil down in the hole.' Nick Cave.
00:00 - 'The walls seem to have been thrown down by sudden force'.Ancient Jericho, around 1550 BC by Karbel
- Always fun to be reminded the sort of people Jesus spent time talking with.
- We’ve been in England for 10 days, and it’s been a stonkingly beautiful Wodehousian summer’s day every single day. Just wonderful.
- ‘Neo-Pagans have sometimes forgotten; when they set out to do everything that the old pagans did, that the final thing the old pagans did was to get Christened.’ [GK Chesterton]
- The Trinity is probably the #1 doctrine that convinces me of Christianity's authenticity. I mean, why the HECK would anyone make up something like that??
