![]() ![]() The deeper we move in our own being, the closer we come to Christ. Christ’s soul and our soul are like an everlasting knot. to portray the strands of time and eternity intertwined, of the human and the creaturely inseparably interrelated, of the one and the many forever married. And any true well-being in our lives will be found not in isolation but in relation. What Julian hears is that “we are all one.” We have come from God as one, and to God we shall return as one. ![]() Grace is given, she says, “to bring nature back to that blessed point from which it came, namely God.” It is given that we may hear again the deepest sounds within us. It is given to free us from the unnaturalness of what we have become and done to one another and to the earth. Grace is given to save our nature, not to save us from our nature. So she speaks of “smelling” God, of “swallowing” God in the waters and juices of the earth, of “feeling” God in the human body and the body of creation. God is “nature’s substance,” the very essence of life. So it is to the very essence of our being that we look for God. And we will know the One from whom we have come only to the extent that we know ourselves. We are not simply made by God we are made “of God.” So we encounter the energy of God in our true depths. “God is our mother as truly as God is our father,” she says. She says that Christ is the one who connects us to the “great root” of our being. John Philip Newell’s beautiful summary of Julian’s visions: ![]()
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