I had decided to end my extracts from this marvellous treasury of images of our loving God and leave others to explore its delights if they so chose. There was just one more phrase that had stayed with me which I wanted to share and, rather than have to skip through all the chapters to find it, I decided to use google.
I wrote, "I it am", and, lo and behold, someone had been there before me; and how!! Google was full of beautiful extracts, in the same entrancing language. Just three words can lead you into this wonderful world of the love of God.
I now know that the images of "I it am" are from chapter 26 and there they are in Wikiquote for all to delve within and relish and fall under their spell.
I first heard of Julian in my mid-thirties and her visions resonated immediately in my heart. When I found that she was born more or less 600 years before me and that she wrote of the infinite love of God, the utter conviction of which has sustained me throughout my life, I felt an immediate bond with her.
This is the God in whom I believe with all my heart and mind. This is the God of loving truth and truthful love, the only God worth giving one's life for and to. I cannot imagine that a more beautiful picture of the 'homely loving' of Our 'Courteous Lord' could be found anywhere in the written word.
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