The Woman Who Bore As One Of Her Names WISDOM, St. Madeleine Sophie Barat
In the beginning there was a woman who bore as one of her names: WISDOM
She had grown up contemplating the vine stocks of her native land, and the shoots that sprout from the vine, thus learning from this life that springs from the roots the secret of how to bear fruit.
She felt the love of God like a spring welling up from her inner depths, like a torrent that flooded her soul, like the water that gives itself over not in order to be contained but in order to be offered, spilt, lost.