Julian's "all shall be well" does NOT suggest that "tomorrow things will be better", but that in that Great Day, God's will shall ultimately be worked in all His creation, and that even now, "the sweet eye of pity and of love never departs from us, and the working of mercy ceases not."
Julian believed that humanity is of almost utmost value and worth, that humanity is the supreme creation of God, the divine gift of the divine Father to the divine Son, possessed of a "divine will that never consents to sin, nor ever will", virtually participating in the divinity of the Trinity itself, Sin is inevitable, and yet there is in us the divine will. We err, we fall, but we are only defined truly by the ceaseless and changeless loving of us by our Creator/Redeemer, not as gods, but as God-made men and women.
"Or Lord was never angry, nor ever shall be. He cannot be angry. It would be impossible." She states that the reason we see wrath in God is because the wrath is in us, and that in our own blindness, we project and attribute our wrath to God. God is impassible, totally unassailable by any passion (such as anger) and ever unchangeable (not subject, for instance, to a beginning and or ending or "wrath"). The familiar "wrathful God" is an Old Testament God... one described in that Kindergarten of God's revelation of Himself... and not the God of perfect Love manifested at Bethlehem and on Calvary. Wrath is contrary to the entire character of God. Jesus said "I did not come to judge the world but to save the world." All of Julian's revelations are concerned with that divine love.
As far as the conflicts and the sinfulness of the world, and the goodness of people, she lived with this in the era that she wrote on a daily basis and she resolved it with... not solving the contradiction, but remaining in the midst of it, in peace, knowing that it is fully solved, but that the solution is secret (in God) and will never be guessed until it is revealed.
"I believe sin has no manner of essence nor any portion of being, that it is nothing, that it is no deed, that all of us carry within our souls a divine will which the image of God never consented to sin nor ever shall and is so good that it can never will evil, but always good, that we are enclosed, enfolded, enwrapped, enclothed constantly in God that at all times God is nearer to us than our own soul, that He is with us in the highest of our spiritual flights and the lowest of our physical needs. Sin is only known by the pain it produces, and we are protected in our Friend's hand."
To those who can find no comfort or hope in a hateful, vengeful, and punishing God, Julian introduces the power of faith... "Look, you have faith in the immeasurable goodness and power of God, but in the face of that you can't understand the existence and power of sin and its resulting pain.... forget trying to understand it. Trust that faith of yours, and leave the understanding of the paradox to God's own revelation in His own time. He knows all that you know, and He has it all under control."
Deb's meager thoughts:
I just find her Faith in God so amazing, that through all of the sin and vileness of the world she lived in, that she still was given such insight into the heart of God! She has found so much love, and expresses it in such a way that I find very encouraging. What I have read so far of her writings, and the descriptions of her writings, have helped me tremendously in understanding how much God loves me, and everyone else. I don't know why, when so many others have tried to tell me how much God loves me, and I have read so much, and all of it I believed, but something in Julian's writings and the way she expressed her insights, has touched me so deep. I have read a lot more, and could continue to share and share and share. Marlin and I talked a lot about what I was reading as I was reading it and I just love sharing and talking about it. But... I figured this was a long enough email, and that if anyone wanted more, I could write another one lol
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I love reading about what you think and what you learn - I hope you're going to keep posting them!
Love - Marykins
Howdy! I didn't realize you're the same Deb from the Heartwords group! I'll write back to ya tomorrow! Woo hoo for newlyweds!
Love, Julia
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