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Love to you all, Mom & NanaApril 9, 2007
“After this he showed a sovereign spiritual loving in my soul. I was filled full of an everlasting sureness that took hold of me in power without any pain or dread. The feeling was so glad and so spiritual that I was in all peace and rest, so that nothing on earth might grieve me. Yet this lasted but a while; then I was changed, left to myself with all the heaviness and weariness of life-I was burdened with myself, so that I barely had patience to live. There was no comfort, no ease: only faith, hope, and charity; and while I had these in reality, yet they were little in feeling. But soon enough our blessed Lord once again gave me that comfort and rest of soul, lovingly and surely, so blissful and so mighty that no dread nor sorrow nor pain that my body could have suffered would have diseased me. And then I was shown once again that pain of feeling; then the loving joy: now the one, and now the other, many time repeating-I suppose some twenty in all.
And in the times of joy, I might have said with St. Paul, “Nothing shall separate me from the love of Christ.” And when in pain, I might have cried out with Peter, “Lord, save me, for I perish.”
…. For God wants us to know that it is he who keeps us surely whether we be in woe or weal. And for the good of our soul we are sometimes left to ourselves… for it is God’s will that we hold ourselves in his comfort with all our might… keeping ourselves in his endless love.”
-Julian of Norwich, Revelation of Love
