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All manner of thing shall be well

Julian of Norwich was one of the great English mystics. Little is known about her life except her writings. She is called Julian of Norwich simply because she lived in a cell adjoining the Benedictine church of St Julian in Conisford, Norwich. Having narrowly survived death from illness at the age of 30 (purportedly through prayer) she fell seriously ill once more in 1373 and experienced a series of 16 revelatory visions, mostly concerning the passion of Christ. After her recovery she meditated on these visions and went on to record her thoughts.

And thus, in my folly, afore this time often I wondered why,

by the great foreseeing wisdom of God, the beginning of sin was

not stopped; for then, I, all should have been well. ... But Jesus,

who in this Vision informed me of all that is needful to me,

answered by this word and said, Sin is unavoidable, but all shall

be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be

well.

For if we never fell, we should not know how feeble and how

wretched we are of our self, and also we should not fully know

that marvellous love of our Maker.

The fullness of Joy is to behold God in everything.

God is all that is good, in my sight, and the goodness that

everything has is his.

If there be anywhere on earth where a lover of God is always

kept safe from falling, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown

me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are

always kept in the same precious love.

Between God and the soul there is no between.

He did not say, You will never have a rough passage, you will

never be over-strained, you will never feel uncomfortable, but he

did say You will never be overcome.

Julian of Norwich (c. 1342–c. 1416) Revelations of Divine Love