Category Archives: gifts

Just Enough Is Plenty

Posted on December 17, 2017 by mhrockness

I have been seeing so clearly lately how they (Arab believers) must be trained in every way possible to give, not just to receive – and it has come as the solution at last of the problem of ours, how … Continue reading →

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A Story & A Song*

Posted on June 10, 2015 by mhrockness

Gathered up, focused 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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Loving Acts of Kindness

Posted on November 14, 2014 by mhrockness

What a difference of atmosphere when Sister Eva got into our train 1/2 way on our road!  For she is a medieval-saint, stepped out into a glorious light & freedom.              Diary 14 November 1908 (Between … Continue reading →

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Passion for Giving

Posted on August 9, 2014 by mhrockness

“There lies before us a beautiful possible life – one that shall have a passion for giving that shall be poured forth to God – spent out for man. . .”   Parables of the Cross Giving.  Gifts – given … Continue reading →

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Living Love

Posted on December 13, 2013 by mhrockness

“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.”  Notice this secret in the first words:  “I am the Way.” This does not mean a series of difficult rules to be obeyed, but “a new and living way” – a … Continue reading →

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Saved to Save

Posted on May 10, 2013 by mhrockness

“We ourselves are ‘saved to save’ – we are made to give – to let everything go if only we may have more to give.”                               … Continue reading →

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Star of Wonder!

Posted on January 4, 2013 by mhrockness

“The sense of Epiphany came before the dawn in the tremulous clanging of the church bell of Blida.  So gentle at first that it might almost have been the tinkling of the wise men’s camels – a growing into a crescendo … Continue reading →

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