Category Archives: beauty

Desert Rose

Posted on August 20, 2015 by mhrockness

The wonder lies in the (desert) floor itself.  It is a layer of crystallized gypsum, several feet thick, that underlies the sand of this district, and serves the land for all building purposes.  You will see scattered along every roadside … Continue reading →

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A Way of Seeing

Posted on September 12, 2014 by mhrockness

               “Oh, how good it is that I have been sent here to such beauty!”                                 Diary I have … Continue reading →

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Harbinger of Spring

Posted on March 14, 2014 by mhrockness

“The long hard winter has broken at last – not as yet in much sign on the earthward side but in the late afternoon yesterday the great cumulus clouds sank away, and in their place lay long horizontal bars, one … Continue reading →

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Gladness of My Joy

Posted on January 3, 2014 by mhrockness

“We speak of the God of Love and the God of Peace – so seldom of the God of Joy.   God is the God of joy, and we must drink in the spirit of His joy. And flowers speak of the … Continue reading →

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Sunshine of My Happy Heart

Posted on October 25, 2013 by mhrockness

“The peaks of the Mischabel were just shouting for joy this morning in radiant snow, after a day’s storm, and the late filaments of cloud were dancing round their crests. Oh it is a wonderful world.”   28 August 1901 Autumn … Continue reading →

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From Beauty to Sacrament

Posted on July 19, 2013 by mhrockness

“All unfolded as things do when God’s “fulness of time” has come – with no striving on our side to make them fit.  Today they have gathered for Mme. H.’s first embroidery lesson.  They are as eager as children over it,  – … Continue reading →

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The Lilies and the Birds

Posted on June 21, 2013 by mhrockness

“Was it not Galileo, when the light of some great astronomical law broke on him – or was it Newton? – who fell on his knees and said, ‘I praise Thee, O God, that Thou has let me think a … Continue reading →

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Beauty From Brokenness

Posted on May 24, 2013 by mhrockness

“Conscious weakness as a preparation for service is one thing; brokenness is another.  We may know that we are but earthen pitchers, like Gideon’s, with nothing of our own but the light within, and yet we may not have passed through the … Continue reading →

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April in October

Posted on October 18, 2012 by mhrockness

  “You are right to be glad in His April days while He gives them.  Every stage of the heavenly growth in us is lovely to Him.  He is the God of the daisies and the lambs and the merry … Continue reading →

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Beholdings!

Posted on August 25, 2012 by mhrockness

“… going day by day for what the Japanese would call “beholdings” & bring(ing) back vivid word-pictures of the same that are a joy…   They went with the intent of shewing Margaret (sister) a row of wonderful cypresses, silhouetted against … Continue reading →

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