In this vision he also showed a little thing, the size of a hazel-nut in the palm of my hand, and it was as round as a ball. I looked at it with my mind’s eye and thought, “What can this be?” And the answer came to me, “It is all that is made.”
I wondered how it could last, for it was so small I thought it might suddenly disappear. And the answer in my mind was, “It lasts and will last for ever because God loves it; and everything exists in the same way by the love of God.”
– Julian of Norwich, 1343-1416, Norwich, England
[Mysticism class. Having a difficult time with “bodily mysticism” with pain and stuff but Julian of Norwich seems to go back and forth easily; she’s apparently the most accessible of medieval Western Christian mystics and I can see why]