Could You Embrace That? | by St. Thomas Aquinas

The Mission of Virgil By: Wiliam Blake

I said to God, “Let me love you”

And He replied, “Which part?”

“All of you, all of you,” I said.

“Dear,” God spoke, “you are as a mouse wanting to impregnate

a tiger who is not even in heat. It is a feat way

beyond your courage and strength.

You would run from me

if I removed my

mask.”

I said to God again,

“Beloved I need to love you—every aspect, every pore.”

And this time God said,

“There is a hideous blemish on my body,

though it is such an infinitesimal part of my Being—

could you kiss that if it were revealed?”

“I will try, Lord, I will try.”

And then God said,

“That blemish is all the hatred and

cruelty in this

world.”

St. Thomas Aquinas (1225—1274)

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Thomas Aquinas is widely regarded as the greatest Catholic theologian and philosophers. He was born into a noble family in Aquino, Italy, 1225.