Fallen Into Knowledge

Yesterday I gets me an email from one of my profs:
“Please have read the rest of the mystic women writers, or at least up as far as the heretics.”
I tell myself to breathe:  this represents a large amount of reading.  I’m swamped, and its only week two.
And yet I still find time to completely remake my website.  Go figure.
This site was constructed using iWeb, the new app that is a part of iLife ’06.  Except for the photo galleries - those were made using Aperture.
Okay, now: Back to work.

Sometimes while she was sitting with them, she would speak of Christ and suddenly and unexpectedly she would be ravished in the spirit and would roll and whirl around like a hoop

(The Life of Christina of St. Trond, Called Christina Mirabilis: 12C)

And sometimes I am also struck by their insight:

But today, instead of loving God’s will, everyone loves himself: it is everyone’s will to have peace and rest, to live with god in riches and might, and to be one with Him in His joy and glory. We all want to be God along with God; but God knows that there are few of us who want to be man with Him and in His humanity, to carry His cross with Him, to hang upon it with Him, to pay with Him the debt of human kind.

(Hadewijch of Braband: Letters to a Young Beguine, Letter 6: 13C)