Welcome to Episode 8 of Wonder Tales where we are joined for the first time by a special guest! The delightful Emelie Thomas of the Sacramental Stories Substack reads our fairy tale for us, and then we have a wonderful conversation about how the prince was converted by the conquering power of Love. As we journey with him through the story, our souls are inspired to, “Seek first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added unto you.” (Matt 6:33)
Books
Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich
Quotes
“Aim at Heaven and you will get earth 'thrown in'; aim at earth and you will get neither.” (C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity)
“Also in this revelation He showed a little thing,
The size of a hazel nut
In the palm of my hand,
And it was as round as a ball.
I looked at it with the eye of my understanding and thought:
‘What can this be?’
And it was generally answered thus: ‘It is all that is made.’
I marveled how it could continue,
Because it seemed to me it could suddenly have sunk into nothingness because of its littleness.
And I was answered in my understanding:
‘It continueth and always shall, because God loveth it;
And in this way everything hath its being by the love of God.’
In this little thing I saw three characteristics:
The first is that God made it,
The second is that God loves it,
The third, that God keeps it.” (Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love)
“It is necessary for us to have awareness
of the littleness of created things
and to set at naught everything that is created,
in order to love and have God who is uncreated.
For this is the reason why we are not fully at ease in heart and soul:
because here we seek rest in these things that are so little,
In which there is no rest,
and we recognize not our God who is all powerful, all wise, all good, for He is the true rest.
God wishes to be known,
and He delights that we remain in Him,
because all that is less than He is not enough for us.
And this is the reason why no soul is at rest
until it is emptied of everything that is created.
When the soul is willingly emptied for love
in order to have Him who is all,
then it is able to receive spiritual rest.” (Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love)
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