'All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well'
That's perhaps Julian's most famous quote.
(Especially given yesterday's blog post about 'three', I'm also reminded of another of her quotes:
'[God] said not 'thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased'; but he said, 'Thou shalt not be overcome.")
Not far behind must be her vision of the nutshell - the whole of all creation as a tiny little thing, like a hazelnut.
There is so much that can be unpacked from that vision. One seems especially useful at the moment... that however anxious or worried or fearful we might be, we are held, always, in the loving hand of God.
A Canticle for today:
God chose to be our mother in all things
and so made the foundation of his work; most humble and most pure, in the Virgin's womb.
God, the perfect wisdom of all,
arrayed himself in this humble place.
Christ came in our poor flesh
to share a mother's care.
Our mothers bear us for pain and for death;
our true mother, Jesus, bears us for joy and endless life.
Christ carried us within him in love and travail,
until the full time of his passion.
And when all was completed and he had carried us so for joy,
still all this could not satisfy the power of his wonderful love.
All that we owe is redeemed in truly loving God,
for the love of Christ works in us; Christ is the one whom we love.
[Canticle from here.]
♫ My dear darling - by Betty Roe, based on words of Julian of Norwich
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