Category Archives: focus

Focussed Lives

Posted on March 21, 2014 by mhrockness

Gathered up, focussed lives, intent on one aim – Christ – these are the lives on which God can concentrate blessedness.  It is “all for all” by a law as unvarying as any law that governs the material universe.  Focussed  … 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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Beauty on the Wing

Posted on July 26, 2013 by mhrockness

“A flower that stops short at its flowering misses its purpose.  We were created for more than our own spiritual development; reproduction, not mere development, is the goal of matured being – reproduction in other lives.”     Parables of … Continue reading →

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The Weight of Glory

Posted on May 18, 2013 by mhrockness

“The grass has to stand very still as it holds its precious ‘weight of glory’ – and so has the soul on whom the dew of the Spirit comes.  Literally, as easily as this dew, His dew is brushed off – some of … Continue reading →

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Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

Posted on October 26, 2012 by mhrockness

“Turn full your soul’s vision to Jesus and look and look at Him, and a strange dimness will come over all that is apart from Him, and the Divine ‘attrait’ by which God’s saints are made, even in this 20th … Continue reading →

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