Everything Was Made for Love

Part One | Grounded and Rooted in Love: A Foundation for Whatever Comes | An Advent Study of Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love

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I look out of the window of my house as I write, thinking of the wars, the genocide, the gleeful exaltation of the opposite of good, the perversion of justice, and I feel Julian reaching to me across time, looking out the window of her anchorhold in a time where the church was burning people at the stake for wanting to translate the Bible into English, so close to where she was that it is speculated she could probably smell the awful stench wafting across the tidy garden that her window overlooked. She would have known what was going on, and she would have turned to her desk and continued writing her little book of theology, in English, quoting the Scripture in English, as people who had been found guilty of the same perished. And yet she continued. You might say, nevertheless, she persisted.

I take comfort in her persistence, and I think that perhaps the anchorhold is a model for the chapter in history in which we find ourselves. Julian chose to be rooted in place, and…