While walking Mocha this morning I had a sense of helpful spirits being with me. Then I listened to Meg Barnhouse singing “All Shall be Well.” Toward the end she sings “… it’s only love that never ends. And so All will be well…” I understood that no matter what happens to us, no matter what we do, when we are hurt, when we hurt others, we are still held in Love. That’s how all is well.
The song is about Julian of Norwich, who lived during the bubonic plague, probably lost family members, certainly saw the carts coming to take the dead bodies away. A lot of suffering. She nearly died, and had visions which she wrote about. She was an anchoress, and lived in a small chamber attached to the Church of St. Julian in Norwich, with a window on a main street. She offered wisdom to anyone who came by. The most well known of her words are “All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”