Snuggle in God’s arms. When you are hurting,
when you feel lonely, left out.
Let Him cradle you, comfort. you,
reassure you of his all-sufficient power and love.
when you feel lonely, left out.
Let Him cradle you, comfort. you,
reassure you of his all-sufficient power and love.
--Kay Arthur
St. Francis de Sales found the image of God as a nursing mother to be a powerful one:
Certainly, just as one sees a famished little child so strongly glued to his mother's side and attached to her breast, avidly pressing this gentle fountain of sweet and desirable liqueur, in such a way that one might think he wants either to bury himself entirely in the maternal breast, or draw and suck that whole breast into his own, so our soul, panting from extreme thirst for the true good, when it encounters the inexhaustible source of the good in the Divinity, O true God, what holy and sweet ardor to unite and join oneself to these breasts abounding in al! goodness, either to be entirely engulfed by [the good], or that it might come to reside entirely in us.
--St. Francis de Sales,
Treatise on the Love of God,
Book III, Chapter 8
Treatise on the Love of God,
Book III, Chapter 8
Image source: Mary Cassatt, Young Mother Nursing Her Child (1906), https://www.artic.edu/artworks/3541/young-mother-nursing-her-child
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