Second Sunday in Lent

“Take the very hardest thing in your life – the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom.” ~ Lilias Trotter (Parables of the Cross)   What is...

First Sunday in Lent

“Holiness, not safety, is the end of our calling.” ~ Lilias Trotter (Parables of the Cross) Who wants to be holy?  Perhaps a better question would be:  What would a truly holy person look like?  One might suspect that what we would note about a...

Lent with Lilias

Ash Wednesday   “‘Death is the Gate of Life’ . . . man’s natural thought of death is that of a dreary ending in decay and dissolution.  And from his standpoint he is right:  death as the punishment of sin is an ending . . . But far other...

The Letter “M”

“It is for ‘Private Circulation’ and Blanche Haworth is the editor:  it has brought out already a deal of latent writing capacity, and will be a first linking all round.  It is called ‘El Couffa’ – a couffa being a native palm-leaf basket:  we...

Advent is Coming!

“Once for all, here and now, this light will break on you if you lift up your eyes and behold Jesus Christ with the spiritual vision of the soul. – The Way of the Sevenfold Secret Advent comes early this year, November 27, hardly giving us time to catch our...

Small Gestures Faithfully Spread Divine Life

The following post is shared with permission by the author, Rev. Christine Maddux. She recently shared it on September 16 in her email column, A Cup of Living Water.* Bees first buzzed to the fore of my consciousness when I listened to The Secret Lives of Bees while...
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