Our Whole Life in Love In her meditation on the Thirteenth Revelation, Julian of Norwich writes:But he wills we take heed thus: that he is the ground of all our whole life in love, he is our everlasting keeper [protector], and mightily defends us against all our enemies that are extremely dangerous and terribly fierce towards us. And our mede [reward] is so much greater if we give him occasion [to love and heal us] by our falling.This theme of Christ as “the ground of our [...]
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Motherhood of God In her reflections on the Fourteenth Revelation, Julian of Norwich writes:And thus in our creation God almighty is our natural father, and God all wisdom is our natural mother, with the love and the goodness of the holy ghost, who is all one God, one lord. And in the knitting and in the oneing he is our very true spouse, and we are his beloved wife and his fair maiden, with which wife he was never displeased. For he says: “I love thee and thou lovest me, and our love shall never [...]
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Life, Love, and Light Nearing the end of her book of Revelations, Julian of Norwich focuses on three words: “life, love, and light.” By God’s life, she means his familiarity, intimacy, and enduring closeness to us in the ground of our being, out of which he will never come. By God’s love, she understands his all-embracing and courteous care for our souls. And by God’s light, she sees his everlasting Being that will never change or alter its expression toward us. She recognizes this trini [...]
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"I Am the Ground" In the Fourteenth Revelation, Julian of Norwich shares what Christ taught her about prayer:And all this our lord brought suddenly to my mind, and shewed these words and said:I am the ground of thy beseking [beseeching in prayer]. First it is my will that thou have it, and next I make thee to will it, and next I make thee to beseke it—and thou besekest it! How should it then be that thou shouldst not have thy beseking?In an astounding moment, the Lord completely inverts the idea that prayer [...]
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Easter Joy! At the end of her Revelations, Julian of Norwich writes:And from the time that it was shown, I desired oftentimes to know what was our lord’s meaning. And fifteen years after and more, I was answered in ghostly understanding, saying thus: “What, wouldest thou know thy lord’s meaning in this thing [the whole revelation]? Know it well, love was his meaning. Who shewed it to thee? Love. What shewed he to thee? Love. Wherefore shewed he it to thee? For love. Hold thee therein, thou [...]
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