Heading home today. It's been a fine two weeks, I feel incredibly blessed to have gotten away and shared some time with good friends. They are dear to me, these people.
I have also been reading a great deal whilst away. I have been dwelling on this idea that we are made good because we are made in the image of God. I grew up in a religion that told me there was nothing good in my humanity and yet as Julia of Norwich writes "my soul is God's dwelling place". I can't imagine a God who would dwell somewhere shabby, well except maybe a stable, okay scratch that. Regardless, as Teresa of Avila describes:
"The soul is like a castle made entirely out of diamond or a very clear crystal, in which there are many rooms, just as in heaven there are many dwelling places... So then, what do you think that the abode will be like where a King so powerful, so wise, so pure, so full of all good things take His delight? I don't find anything comparable to the magnificent beauty of a soul and its marvelous capacity".
Now to de-sand.
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