Holy Spirit,
Giving life to all life,
Moving all creatures,
Root of all things,
Washing them clean,
Wiping out their mistakes,
Healing their wounds,
You are our true life,
Luminous, wonderful,
Awakening the heart
From its ancient sleep.

Hildegard of Bingen   1098-1179 was a German writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, abbess, visionary and polymath. She wrote theological, botanical, and medicinal texts as well as letters, liturgical songs and poems.

And God said to the soul:
I desired you before the world began.
I desire you now
As you desire me.
And where the desires of two come together
There love is perfected.

Mechtild of Magdeburg, 13^TH Century was a Beguine and mystic whose book, The Flowing Light of Divinity, described her visions of God.

Anyone who has waded
Through Love’s turbulent waters,
Now feeling hunger and now satiety,
Is untouched by the season
Of withering or blooming,
For in the deepest
And most dangerous waters,
On the highest peaks,
Love is always the same.

Hadewijch of Antwerp, 13th Century, was a poet and mystic whose writings include visions, prose letters and poetry.

The language of mystics has a timeless quality whose meaning is at once ancient and contemporary. Agape, the love of the divine, is an every-constant theme no matter what the century or culture.