I Am Keeping You

"God is a God of peace, and peace flows from the core of a person who is in touch with the true self."--Elizabeth Ruth Obbard

Tears streamed down my face and I pulled the throw blanket off the back of the tiny couch in the living room of the Air Bnb and wrapped it around myself. It was day two of our visit to Norwich, England, and the kids had requested a break from doing all the things, and so we paused on a Saturday, and just hung out. I was glad the first stop we’d made the previous day was to the shrine of St. Julian of Norwich, and that I’d promptly purchased two books: a modernization of Julian’s Revelations, and a book entitled Through Julian’s Windows, by Elizabeth Ruth Obbard. Since the kids wanted a break, I decided to read all day. I sat down with my tea and biscoff cookies and began Elizabeth’s book first. 

I’d read bits and pieces of Julian’s Revelations for years in several different Kindle versions, and I’d even purchased a different modernization and then never read it cover to cover. But upon walking into her cell the day before, I experienced something I couldn’t really explain, and I was ov…