I love when reading gives me goosebumps. This was an assigned reading from a couple weeks ago, but I read it again and it gave me goosebumps again, so I am sharing.
" I have also, daughter, chastised you with the fear of my God- head, and many times I have frightened you with great winds and storms, so that you thought vengeance would have fallen on you for sin. I have tested you by many tribulations, many great griefs and many grievous sicknesses, so that you have been anointed for death, and entirely through my grace you have escaped. Therefore don't be at all afraid, daughter, for with my own hands which were nailed to the cross I shall take your soul from your body with great joy and melody, with sweet smells and fragrances, and offer it to my father in heaven, where you shall see him face to face, dwelling with him without end.
"Daughter, you will be very welcome to my father, and to my mother, and to all my saints in heaven, for you have given them drink very many times with the tears of your eyes. All my holy saints shall rejoice at your coming home. You shall be fulfilled with every kind of love that you desire. Then you will bless the time that you were made and the body that has (dearly) redeemed you. He shall rejoice in you and you in him without end.
-Jesus speaking to Margary Kempe
Source: Book: Medieval Writings on Female Spirituality.
Daughter First and Foremost.
Do you know a woman that does NOT need to hear this?
~Amber
