[65] "Our
passing life here that we have in our sense-soul knoweth not what our
Self is," and the cause of our disease is that we rest in little things
which can never satisfy us, for "our Soul may never have rest in things
that are beneath itself." She actually saw God enfolding all things.
"For as the body is clad in the cloth, and the flesh in the skin, and
the bones in the flesh, and the heart in the whole, so are we, soul and
body, clad in the Goodness of God, and enclosed." She further had sight
of all things that are made, and her description of this "Shewing" is so
beautiful and characteristic that it must be given in her own words.
"In this same time our Lord shewed me a spiritual sight of His
homely loving.... 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
looked thereupon with the eye of my understanding, and thought:
_What may this be_? And it was answered generally thus: _It is all
that is made_. I marvelled how it might last, for methought it
might suddenly have fallen to naught for little[ness]. And I was
answered in my understanding: _It lasteth, and ever shall [last]
for that God loveth it_.
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