One of my favorite things about reading female mystic writers is how convinced they are of God’s intense interest in people- not as a bloc or a theological category like the church, but because God is personal and relational and just really likes people.
Julian of Norwich: “God wishes to be seen, and God wishes to be sought, and God wishes to be expected, and God wishes to be trusted.” Man, I just love that.
Medieval mystical literature is also such a different animal from modernist, proposition-forward Christianity. The centerpiece is God the person, not a series of statements you signed about God.
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