Happy Birthday to Everyone Born in May

Welcome Baskets Ministry

Our faith calls us to care for those in our community who are experiencing times of transition and healing. Turning Point House is preparing to welcome a new cohort of women into their recovery program, and have requested more welcome baskets from us. We are making an appeal for donations so that we can continue to provide this encouragement and sign of God's care.  These baskets are very much appreciated. You can read the Thank-You card from the women on the bulletin board outside the church office.

May 8 is the Feast Day of Julian of Norwich, an English anchoress who experienced a vision in 1373, and wrote about it in Showings or Revelations of Divine Love — the earliest surviving book by a woman in the English language.

“And in this he showed me a little thing,” she wrote, “the quantity of a hazelnut, lying in the palm of my hand, as it seemed. And it was as round as any ball. I looked upon it with the eye of my understanding, and thought, ‘What may this be?’ And it was answered generally thus, ‘It is all that is made.’ I marveled how it might last, for I thought it might suddenly have fallen to nothing for littleness. And I was answered in my understanding: It lasts and ever shall, for God loves it. And so have all things their beginning by the love of God. In this little thing I saw three properties. The first is that God made it. The second that God loves it. And the third, that God keeps it.”

Here’s that passage laid out as a poem, for your reading pleasure.

Julian’s most famous line may be her most consoling (and a good word for our times today!): “but all will be well, and all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well.”

Image: Wolfgang Vrede on Unsplash

Original post on Saltproject.org