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Oct. 5th, 2007 12:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
highlyeccentricSometimes, I feel like Julian of Norwich.
...And he showed me more, a little thing, the size of a hazlenut, on the palm of my hand, round like a ball. I looked at it thoughtfully and wondered, 'What is this?' And the answer came, 'It is all that is made.' I marvelled that it continued to exist and did not suddenly disintegrate; it was so small. And again my mind supplied the answer, 'It exists, both now and forever, because God loves it.' In short, everything owes its existence to the love of God. In this 'little thing' i saw three truths. The first is that God made it; the second is that God loves it; and the third is that God stustains it. But what he is who is in truth Maker, Keeper and Lover I cannot tell...
-Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, chapter 5, trans. C. Wolters.
most of the time I don't.
besides which, i'm not so keen on the idea of physical suffering as to pray nightly for a visitation thereof. and i could do without the stigmata, really. and without a near-death experience.
...And he showed me more, a little thing, the size of a hazlenut, on the palm of my hand, round like a ball. I looked at it thoughtfully and wondered, 'What is this?' And the answer came, 'It is all that is made.' I marvelled that it continued to exist and did not suddenly disintegrate; it was so small. And again my mind supplied the answer, 'It exists, both now and forever, because God loves it.' In short, everything owes its existence to the love of God. In this 'little thing' i saw three truths. The first is that God made it; the second is that God loves it; and the third is that God stustains it. But what he is who is in truth Maker, Keeper and Lover I cannot tell...
-Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, chapter 5, trans. C. Wolters.
most of the time I don't.
besides which, i'm not so keen on the idea of physical suffering as to pray nightly for a visitation thereof. and i could do without the stigmata, really. and without a near-death experience.