Dame Julian of Norwich is remembered on May 8. Having recovered from a grave illness, she had a series of visions from God which she reported in her book called “Revelations of Divine Love.” Her book is a tender meditation on God's eternal and all-embracing love, as expressed to us in the Passion of Christ.
One of the more familiar revelations concerned a hazelnut: “She describes seeing God holding a tiny thing in his hand, like a small brown nut, which seemed so fragile and insignificant that she wondered why it did not crumble before her eyes. She understood that the thing was the entire created universe, which is as nothing compared to its Creator, and she was told, ‘God made it, God loves it, God keeps it.’”
A matter that greatly troubled her was the fate of those who through no fault of their own had never heard the Gospel. She never received a direct answer to her questions about them, except to be told that whatever God does is done in Love, and therefore "that all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well."
With thanks to James Kiefer for his research
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