Grace
Love is God's Meaning
This "city" is the human soul, redeemed and restored, which is from creation joined to God. Creation and especially human nature is God's "native place" in which God indwells. The image of the Son's crown as he now stands "richly clothed" before the Father is no longer the crown of thorns, the image of suffering. Rather, as Julian is shown, humanity is his crown.
For it was revealed that we are his crown, which crown is the Father's joy, the Son's honour, the Holy Spirit's delight, and endless marvellous bliss to all who are in heaven.
The famous phrase, "all will be well, and all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well" is first introduced in the Thirteenth Revelation in the context of sin and the pain that it brings to humanity (chapter 27).
It is in the Passion of Jesus that the promise is made. Julian understands in these words that this is part of the mystery at the heart of God. This mystery of God's desire will ultimately issue in a "deed" and the deed that will be done to make all things well is an action of the Trinity. In a further exposition of the phrase the Trinitarian nature of salvation is explicitly stated. The making well of all things relates to salvation and all who are saved "will be saved in the blessed Trinity"
(chapter 31). Julian assures her readers that on "the last day" the Trinity will perform a deed that will make "all things well." At the same time
God will reveal how this is so. Until then it is concealed (chapter 32). It is clear from the remainder of the chapter that Julian is struggling with her sense that this may imply universal salvation and with how this accords with the Church's teaching about the existence of hell.6 The central point, however, is that the ultimate deed is the work of the Trinity. "For just as the blessed Trinity created all things from nothing, just so will the same blessed Trinity make everything well which is not well" (chapter 32).
Grace Julian's approach to the theology of God is performative rather than simply informative. In Christian theology, God's action towards humanity is classically referred to as "grace." There have been a range of approaches to the concept of grace in Christian tradition. However, most importantly, grace is not an abstract "something." Rather, in broad terms the word stands for God's action in relation to creation and especially towards humanity. This shows itself particularly as love and mercy and as the giving of gifts.7 As Julian puts it in chapter 59, God affirms that "I am he, the light and the grace which is all blessed love."