When it is willingly made nought, for love, to have Him that is all, then is it able to receive spiritual rest.Īlso our Lord God shewed that it is full great pleasance to Him that a helpless soul come to Him simply and plainly and homely. And this is the cause why that no soul is rested till it is made nought 29 29 'nowtid of.' de Cressy: 'naughted (emptied).' as to all things that are made. God willeth to be known, and it pleaseth Him that we rest in Him for all that is beneath Him sufficeth not us. For this is the cause why we be not all in ease of heart and soul: that we seek here rest in those things that are so little, wherein is no rest, and know not our God that is All-mighty, All-wise, All-good. It needeth us to have knowing of the littleness of creatures and to hold as nought 28 28 'to nowtyn.' all-thing that is made, for to love and have God that is unmade. to Him, I may never have full rest nor very bliss: that is to say, till I be so fastened to Him, that there is right nought that is made betwixt my God and me. But what is to me verily the Maker, the Keeper, and the Lover,-I cannot tell for till I am Substantially oned 27 27 i.e.in essence united. The first is that God made it, the second is that God loveth it, the third, that God keepeth it. In this Little Thing I saw three properties. And so All-thing hath the Being by the love of God. And I was answered in my understanding: It lasteth, and ever shall for that God loveth it. I marvelled how it might last, for methought it might suddenly have fallen to naught for little. I looked thereupon with eye of my understanding, and thought: What may this be? And it was answered generally thus: It is all that is made.

us for tender love, that He may never leave us being to us all-thing that is good, as to mine understanding.Īlso in this He shewed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazel-nut, in the palm of my hand and it was as round as a ball. I saw that He is to us everything that is good and comfortable for us: He is our clothing that for love wrappeth us, claspeth us, and all encloseth 26 26 'Becloseth' and so generally. 'ghostly,' and so, generally, throughout the MS. IN this same time our Lord shewed me a spiritual 25 25 MS. CHAPTER V “God, of Thy Goodness, give me Thyself -only in Thee I have all”

Revelations of divine love