{"id":12721,"date":"2024-11-25T07:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T12:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=12721"},"modified":"2024-11-24T08:00:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T13:00:32","slug":"hazelnut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=12721","title":{"rendered":"Hazelnut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20221021_1913291-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20221021_1913291-769x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12251\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20221021_1913291-769x1024.jpg 769w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20221021_1913291-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20221021_1913291-768x1023.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20221021_1913291-rotated.jpg 903w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Prodigal:  Look at all these nuts!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Me:  Yes, but they can tell you about God also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is from Mother Juliana, 1373<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He showed a little thing, the quantity of a hazel-nut, lying in the palm of my hand, as meseemed, and it was as round as a ball.  I looked theron with the eye of my understanding, and thought, &#8220;What may this be?&#8221;  and it was answered generally thus, &#8220;It is all that is made.&#8221;  I marvelled how it might last; for methought it might suddenly have fallen to naught for littleness.  And I was answered in my understanding, &#8220;It lasteth, and ever shall:  For God loveth it.  And so hath all things being by the Love of God.&#8221;  In this little thing I saw three properties.  The first is that God made it.  The second is, that God loveth it.  The third is, that God keepeth it.  For this is the cause which we be not all in ease of heart and soul: for we seek here rest in this thing which is so little, where no rest is in:  and we know not our God that is all Mighty, all Wise, and all Good, for He is very rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blessed is the man unto whom the\u00a0Lord\u00a0imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. 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