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The women mystics of medieval Europe represent the very first feminine voices heard in a world where women were nearly silent. As such, they are striking and unusual, strange, powerful and urgent. Monica Furlong uses key selections from among these women's own writings and writings about them by their contemporaries, along with her own assessment of them, to open up their contributions to a wide popular audience. The eleven women represented in this anthology were housewives, visionaries, abbesses, beguines, recluses, and nuns who wrote between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. They include: • Héloïse, the scholar and abbess, whose letters to Abelard are treasure of medieval literature • Hildegard of Bingen, the visionary Rhineland nun • Clare of Assisi, the close friend of Saint Francis and founder of the Poor Clares • Catherine of Siena, an influential spiritual counselor whose book, Dialogue, consists of a debate between herself and God • Julian of Norwich, the English hermitess who spent the greater part of her life meditating on and coming to understand the striking visions she received as a young woman • and many others
An anthology of women's writings drawn from the 12th century to the 14th century, this collection includes letters, hymns, practical advice, rules for nuns, accounts of visions and revelations, prayers, dialogues and autobiographical writings. Each woman mystic is introduced separately, and the diverse material shows both the intelligence, originality and profound devotion of the women authors, and how their position as women affected their work.
“An extraordinary novel . . . a triumph of insight and storytelling.” —Associated Press “A true masterpiece.” —Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed An extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from the celebrated number one New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings In her mesmerizing fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd takes an audacious approach to history and brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. Raised in a wealthy family with ties to the ruler of Galilee, she is rebellious and ambitious, with a brilliant mind and a daring spirit. She engages in furtive scholarly pursuits and writes narratives about neglected and silenced women. Ana is expected to marry an older widower, a prospect that horrifies her. An encounter with eighteen-year-old Jesus changes everything. Their marriage evolves with love and conflict, humor and pathos in Nazareth, where Ana makes a home with Jesus, his brothers, and their mother, Mary. Ana's pent-up longings intensify amid the turbulent resistance to Rome's occupation of Israel, partially led by her brother, Judas. She is sustained by her fearless aunt Yaltha, who harbors a compelling secret. When Ana commits a brazen act that puts her in peril, she flees to Alexandria, where startling revelations and greater dangers unfold, and she finds refuge in unexpected surroundings. Ana determines her fate during a stunning convergence of events considered among the most impactful in human history. Grounded in meticulous research and written with a reverential approach to Jesus's life that focuses on his humanity, The Book of Longings is an inspiring, unforgettable account of one woman's bold struggle to realize the passion and potential inside her, while living in a time, place and culture devised to silence her. It is a triumph of storytelling both timely and timeless, from a masterful writer at the height of her powers.
In this mannered tour through literature, sports, film and daily life, Barry Morrow leads us to contemplate the nature and purpose of human longing. Using Ecclesiastes as a map for the journey, Morrow gives us a vision of our disenchantment "under the sun" and suggests that human culture gives evidence of another reality for which God created us.
Without exception of race, religion, gender, and age, every human being dreams when sleeping, and it is the presence of God in action who introduces the real overview of our projected thought which creates the dream. Any future action gets the true meaning form of our knowingly design that weaEUR(tm)ll have to find for better perform our desires and preferences, angel characters, in order to live our paradise and then resist and fight low vibrations, archangel characters to rise our internal light on overcoming death, the failure to the divine riding. The loss of the vital energy are only for those who ignore the Almighty God present, the Christ with whom Jesus developed the communion becoming one and reflected the divine grace overcoming death. aEURoeAnyone who sees Me, sees the father,aEUR Jesus said, the savior of the humanity and the way, the truth, and the life that no one can go to heaven without Christ. Dreams are one of the divine created faculties with different aspects allowing humans to directly communicate with Christ who just need you to be alive and achieve. The reason why when recognizing GodaEUR(tm)s presence in your heart, youaEUR(tm)ll take control of your key to happiness by your thoughts on monitoring and correcting yourself.
Over the course of six months during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Titus Chu shared twenty messages to the church in Cleveland on the topic of "Visions and Revelations." The messages were recorded and posted on the church website, allowing them to be enjoyed by other saints and local churches around the world. This sharing was meant not only to give spiritual supply and encouragement to the saints who were isolated and quarantined at home during this time, but also to be the core of the fellowship and spiritual pursuing of the church. Therefore, the context of these messages was not individual enjoyment alone, but a local church with saints pursuing the Lord together in fellowship. We editors feel this is also the best context for Jesus lovers and seekers enjoying these messages in the future. Though each message is quite high and heavenly, brother Chu's desire was that everything shared could be practically applied to our daily lives and today's need, in turn practically affecting our church life. The first eight messages of the series are presented in this volume as spoken, with only light edits to change them into readable form. We editors have done our best to maintain the flavor and character of the spoken sharing. Most direct references to the pandemic have been made more general for the benefit of future readers, although some specific examples have been kept for the sake of the point being made. We trust readers will find helpful applications in their own settings and environments.The messages in this volume cover the various visions God gave surrounding the birth of Jesus and the beginning of His ministry. At this time, the age of Law was turning to the age of grace, and God gave numerous visions to bring people into a realization of what He really desired. He is gracious, He longs to give grace and lead us and be with us in ways that are so much more intimate than the nation of Israel could experience under the Old Covenant. Consequently, these messages challenge us to leave our old ways, habits and old patterns, and call us to be brought into something new and fresh of God's heart through visions and revelations. By receiving fresh vision from God, we can follow Him more clearly, buoyantly, and with more reality than before.Visions and revelations demand a response from us. These stories from the New Testament demonstrate, on the one hand, the danger of a lack of proper response-seen in Zacharias's initial reaction and in the examples of the chief priests, the scribes, and even John the Baptist. On the other hand, they reveal the blessing to those who pay a price to gain the reality of their vision-seen in Zacharias's eventual realization and the examples of the shepherds, Mary, and the wise men. May these messages not only reveal more of God's heart to us, but also provide us with a supply of life and grace to respond and follow faithfully.We feel it is profitable to note not only the background and purpose of these messages, but also the man who gave them. Titus Chu is a man of vision, and his life and ministry have been marked by always fighting to see more and to labor accordingly. In this way, he follows in the pattern of the apostle Paul, whose Christian life began with a vision on the road to Damascus-a great vision of Christ and the church. Then, later in his life, Paul also wrote to the church in Corinth, "I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord" (2 Cor. 12:1b). The great heavenly vision had become, or produced, many more visions and revelations.
This is the Second edition with smaller font, and 5 x 8 inch, instead of 6 x 9 inch.In the Spring of 2017, God started taking Ashley to Heaven in visions. She has also been taken in her spirit to many places around the world, as well as to Hell. While her visions contain similarities to others who have received visions from the Lord, there are aspects that are unique to hers. She knows that the visions were not given for her alone, but for the Body of Christ. Jesus said, "Freely you have received, freely give"! It is His message. It is her desire that every one who reads this book will develop a deeper understanding of God, and that they will be persuaded to fully follow the Lord of Love!