Tee p. 19 of Enfolded in Love, or ch. 11 of Revelations of Divine Love.
and fills it full of joy." It is a journey which has its end in the vision of God, yet even here and now we have glimpses of his glory: 'I saw him and I sought him, and I had him and I lacked him.'
The vision of God, both here and hereafter, is possible because God is the ground of all that exists — its maker, sustainer, and redeemer. Nothing is outside his constant creative will. In her famous vision of a little thing 'the size of a hazelnut, in the palm of my hand', or in the 'shewing' of God as the 'still point',' she is led to understand God's loving concern for all he has made. And this leads her to the realization that God loves our fallen human nature just as much as our redeemed humanity. In fact there is no division between the two, for Christ in assuming the former at the incarnation can raise it to the latter by the power of his resurrection life. God wills that what
Julian calls our 'sensuality' should be raised to the same glory as our inner being or 'substance' as she calls it. 'Every kind of "nature" that he has caused to flow out of himself to fulfil his purpose will be brought back and restored to him." So it is that her most famous aphorism, 'all shall be well', is not an optimism grounded in humanist hope, but a divinely-given certainty that what God loves — and he loves all that is — he will take to himself. An age which tends to separate the 'spiritual' and the 'material' needs to hear this, and certainly it challenges
4. p.2
5. p. 26.
6. See p. 11 of Enfolded in Love, or ch. 5 of Revelations of Divine Love.
Tee p. 19 of Enfolded in Love, or ch. 11 of Revelations of Divine Love.
8. See ch. 62 of Revelations of Divine Love.