“When I came to live here, as a hermit, it was absolutely not to be with God alone, but only to give my life to the world by letting his love flow through me. Unseen in the solitude and in activeness of Jesus on the Cross.”
Ann-Marie, a Belgian nun who has been living as a hermit for 38 years in the hermitage of The Cambusmore Estate in Scotland, shares with Reza her monastic experience and how she came to realise the truth through Divine love. Her experience of Divine love was so all encompassing that it became inescapable, in a certain sense, it enclosed her from doing anything other than to love. The creativity of love prevails over the destructiveness of death. She also explains her unique understanding of the Trinity, and how that could be understood from a Muslim perspective.
Anne-Marie wrote some letters to the Archbishop and she shared some of those letters with Reza. He then start reading experts of those letter and then asking her to comment on them.
“I have understood the real meaning of what happened on the Cross and the resurrection. You cannot kill someone who is giving his life, he is the eternal victor. Love that gives itself totally to the end of physical death. On this death has no power, in this the power of death is broken. Jesus says, Jon ch.10:18, my life nobody takes it away from me, I give it.”
“My whole being was responding exactly to his will. My NO changes to a YES.”
