Category Archives: life

Parables of the Cross

Posted on October 10, 2015 by mhrockness

It is in the stages of a plant’s growth, its budding and blossoming and seed-bearing that this lesson has come to me:  the lesson of death in its delivering power.  It has come as no mere far-fetched imagery, but as … Continue reading →

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The Path of Life

Posted on March 29, 2015 by mhrockness

  “Death is the gate of life.”  Does it look so to us?  Have we learnt to go down, once and again, into its gathering shadow in quietness and confidence, knowing that there is always “a better resurrection” beyond?   … Continue reading →

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Looking back. . . Looking forward. . .

Posted on July 11, 2014 by mhrockness

“A bee comforted me very much this morning. . .   He was hovering among some blackberry sprays, just touching the flowers here and there in a very tentative way, yet all unconsciously, life-life-life was left behind at every touch, … Continue reading →

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Spring of Life

Posted on February 7, 2014 by mhrockness

“It is utterly, unbelievably simple.  Receive Jesus with a heart-grasp,  and you will find, like the flower, a spring of eternal life, entirely distinct from your own, set working deep down in your inmost being.”   Parables of the Christ-life A … Continue reading →

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Room in My Heart

Posted on December 20, 2013 by mhrockness

“As the Bread satisfies the hunger of the body, so this indwelling of Christ in us satisfies the hunger of the soul, until it becomes rested through and through.”                       … 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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Parable of the Well Water

Posted on November 1, 2013 by mhrockness

“Such a lovely ‘beholding’ today!  I went to the well – and it was uncovered for me to look down.  Instead of the still circle of water I expected to see, it was all heaving and rippling in swelling circles! … Continue reading →

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Who Wants To Be Holy?!

Posted on September 20, 2013 by mhrockness

“Holiness, not safety, is the end of our calling.”  Parables of the The Cross How Lilias loved the young Arab women who peopled her life in Algiers.  Her heart reached out to their common plight:  married off by their families at … Continue reading →

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Seed Sowing

Posted on September 13, 2013 by mhrockness

“. . . & so the seed scatters, & we know not which shall prosper, like the seed sowing that is going on before our eyes on every hillside.”   Journal 1894 Seed.  November 20, 1894.  Lilias and her colleague, Blanche … Continue reading →

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Stored Energy

Posted on September 6, 2013 by mhrockness

“There is something wonderful in the thought that all the world’s commerce of late, and much of the political movements that stand co-related hang on the coal supply; in other words, on bringing to the surface the buried lives of … Continue reading →

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