Category Archives: light

SHINE!

Posted on December 30, 2021 by mhrockness

“Our meeting place with God, and our beholding His glory, lies not in our going up to Him, but in His coming down to us in the person of Jesus Christ our Lord. “God who commanded the light to shine … 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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Take Joy!

Posted on December 27, 2013 by mhrockness

“Such a ‘merry’ & joyful’ Christmas Day as we have never had before, the result of 3 children in the house, for our little Belour’s Matilde is as real a baby as any of them – . . .  & the 2 smaller … 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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Love Came Down

Posted on December 6, 2013 by mhrockness

“Our meeting place with God and our beholding His glory, lies not in our going up to Him, but in His coming down to us in the person of Jesus Christ our Lord.  ‘God who commended the light to shine … 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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Glimmer of Light

Posted on August 2, 2013 by mhrockness

“In the garden there is an African ‘soldanella’ – not a real soldanella – only an African version of the same truth of the wonders that God can do in secret.  A garden border of a kind of thick matted grass, a … Continue reading →

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The Baby Moon

Posted on July 5, 2013 by mhrockness

The baby new moon was hanging in the sunset tonight like a boat for the little angels – so the battle month is over again.  This has come with a flood of fresh inspiration to hope.   11 February 1896  A … Continue reading →

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The Glory of His Gladness

Posted on April 4, 2013 by mhrockness

 “Yes, life is the uppermost – resurrection life, radiant and joyful and strong – for we represent down here Him who liveth and was dead and is alive forevermore. , ,   Oh let us not dim it by a shadow of morbidness or … Continue reading →

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Daisies Talking

Posted on January 25, 2013 by mhrockness

The daisies have been talking again – the girls brought in a clump the other day from their Saturday afternoon hours in the country.  Somewhere long ago I saw that the reason they spread out their leaves flat on the … Continue reading →

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