He Carries Us Within Him

“But our true Mother Jesus, He alone bears us for joy and for endless life, blessed may He be. So He carries us within Him in love and travail, until the full time which He wanted to suffer the sharpest thorns and cruel pains that ever were or will be, and at last He died. And when He had finished, and had borne us so for bliss, still all this could not satisfy His wonderful love. And He revealed this in these great surpassing words of love: If I could suffer more, I would suffer more. He could not die any more, but He did not want to cease working; therefore He must needs nourish us, for the precious love of motherhood has made Him our debtor.”

~Julian of Norwich