Wednesday 7 May 2008
Julian of Norwich
"And thus I understood that any man or woman who deliberately chooses God in this life, out of love, may be sure that he or she is loved without end. This endless love produces grace in them. For God wants us to hold trustfully to his: that we be as certain, in home, of the bliss of heaven while we are here as we will be, in fact, when we are there. And always the more delight and joy we take in this certainty, with reverence and meekness, the better it pleases God."
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of course julian of norwich was clinically insane. that is, she would meet the modern criteria for schizophrenia and probably had temporal lobe epilepsy.
luckily for us, they knew those days that the right thing to do was to value people's strengths so she was allowed to be mystical. it is likely that her epilepsy and/or psychosis made the space above her 'thin' to the voice of God. Oh that we may have the same!
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