“I understood three ways of seeing motherhood in
God: the first is that he is the ground of our natural creation, the second is
the taking on of our nature (and there the motherhood of grace begins), the
third is the motherhood of works, and in this there is, by the same grace, an
enlargement of length and breadth and of height and of deepness without end,
and all is his own love.”—English anchoress and Christian mystic Julian of
Norwich, from Revelations of Divine Love
(1393), excerpted in The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism, edited by Bernard McGinn (2006)
(Statue of
Julian of Norwich at Norwich Cathedral, by David Holgate)
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