the words find us

"i shall make all things well,

and i will make all things well;

and you will see yourself that every

kind of thing will be well."

Julian of Norwich,

a mysterious, female mystic

from a tumultuously mysterious time.

it has been said that when

Mother Julian was writing these words,

she was expressing her

deepest sense of spirituality and 

beliefs about her Creator.

she authored,

Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love,

when she was only 30 years old.

this book is said to be the first

book written by an English woman.

words seem to find us.

and it's remarkable how words,

said more than 600

years ago

still have the power to

jump off the page

and make me

catch my breath.

on a wednesday afternoon

in a random book

off the highest shelf

at one of my favorite city

haunts.