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"There is No Other Doer but He"

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  As journals, blogs are like life: open-ended. You finish one piece, you've no idea what the next will say, or whether there'll be a next one.  After ending my last with a quote from Julian of Norwich, to round the thing off as I thought, I never expected to encounter her again so soon. A few days later I dropped in at our local Oxfam on the off-chance of something interesting. They have a small shelf of oddments they label "collectible", meaning obscure and old. It's been a cornucopia of serendipity on various occasions mentioned in these posts. To my surprise they had a well-worn, much underlined edition of the Revelations of Divine Love. To my mind it may be the best available anywhere, being published in soon after additional manuscripts had come to light in 1909 and 1910. Mine cost less than a dollar, but there are Kindle versions with the same text for little more. And as I delve in to the content, I'd like nothing more than to share the content with a ...