At the same time, he showed me a little thing in the palm of my hand, about the size of a hazelnut, and as round as a ball. I looked at it with the eye of my understanding, and thought: ‘What can this be?’ And the answer came: ‘This is all that is made.’ I wondered how it might last, for something so small could soon become nothing. And in my understanding I received this answer: ‘It lasts and shall always last because God loves it. And so it is for all who have the being in the love of God.’
