We hope to make the recording of Bishop Arun’s lecture available in due course.
The following are the 5 helps Arun spoke on:
- Thank God. Often and always. Thank him carefully and wonderingly for your continuing privileges and for every experience of his goodness. Thankfulness is a soil in which pride does not easily grow.
- Take care about confession of your sins. As time passes the habit of being critical about people and things grows more than each of us realize. …[He then gently commends the practice of sacramental confession].
- Be ready to accept humiliations. They can hurt terribly but they can help to keep you humble. All these can be so many chances to be a little nearer to our Lord. There is nothing to fear, if you are near to the Lord and in his hands.
- Do not worry about status. There is only one status that Our Lord bids us be concerned with, and that is our proximity to Him. That is our status; to be near our Lord wherever He may ask us to go with him.
- Use your sense of humour. Laugh at things, laugh at the absurdities of life, laugh at yourself.
