It Will Be Well – PDF’s & Postcards From 700 Years Ago

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The context of the saying by Julian Norwich

Julian of Norwich was a 14th-century mystic and contemplative. She lived through The Black Plague (originating in China, brought to England via the international trade routes of the time), which makes her words even more appropriate for us during this time of the challenges of the Covid19 virus.

Following is the passage she wrote from which the quote is taken:

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, methought, 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 things 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 marvelous 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.

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 in Revelations of Divine Love

This current challenge is difficult, but our God hasn’t changed

As difficult as it is with the current challenges of the virus, I can’t imagine how terrifying it must have been for Julian and her peers when they had no understanding of how horrible diseases and plagues spread and where the ill and dying were often simply abandoned.

But here we are. Like Julian, we can take this time and use it to grow our relationship with our Lord and to bless others with what we’ve learned. It will be well.

My prayers and encouragement are with all of you that we might trust our God that truly, “all will be well.”

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