[Magdalen] Prayer pats, please

[Roger Stokes]

On 25/01/2016 03:14, Molly Wolf wrote:
> I should clarify:  I'm not schlepping resentments.  But every now and again, something brings out the appalling-ness of something from the past, and I'm filled with horrified compassion for my family and a renewed understanding of why my spiritual life is not exactly a bed of roses.

I sometimes say that life can be a bed of roses - feed it with muck, 
thorns to scratch you, the need for periodic hard pruning and if you're 
lucky a few beautiful and fragrant blooms that then wither and fade from 
the memory.

Roger