Sunday, 4 June 2017

From Julian of Norwich on the immensity God's love of God

Revelations of Divine Love

The Eighth Chapter

........I understood........the blissful Godhead that ever was, is, and ever shall be: Almighty, All-Wisdom, All-Love.........For well I wot that heaven and earth and all that is made is great and large, fair and good; but the cause it shewed so little to my sight was for that I saw it in the presence of him that is the Maker of all things: for to a soul that seeth the Maker of all, all that is made seemeth full little........... he that made all-thing for love, by the same love keepeth (it), and it is kept and shall be without end.............God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that everything hath, it is he.

In all this I was greatly stirred in charity to mine even-Christians, that they might see and know the same that I saw: for I would it were comfort to them.

And therefore I pray you all for God's sake, and counsel you for your own profit, that ye.........meekly behold God that of his courteous love and endless goodness would shew (this Vision....of our Lord God) generally, in comfort of us all. For it is God's will that ye take it with great joy and liking, as if Jesus had shewed it unto you all.



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