Yesterday morning I posted a poem inspired by something I had read. In the reading was a section about how we often hurt those closest to us without meaning to, because of our own past hurts. While I had already been aware of this relationship dynamic, the way it was explained by this particular author touched me in a way that made that poem – “Recklessly Cast” – fall right out of me onto the paper. When a poem “falls out of me” like that, I always feel compelled to share it (for, that is when I know for certain it is not “my” poem).

Because of the difficult subject of the poem, and because most of the people who know me know that I write very often straight from my heart, several people reached out to me after reading the poem to check on me. I thanked those caring people and assured them that I was okay – that “all is well”. And, while typing that little statement into a text message, I was reminded of the stunning writings of the mystic, Julian of Norwich. For me, the greatest take-away from reading Julian of Norwich’s, Showings, is knowing that even in the darkest moments, when near death, swimming in uncertainty, or abandoned in a world that doesn’t understand me, “All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well.”

In that moment, I smiled in recognition of God’s amazing Love for me. Even if the poem I posted yesterday had been one I wrote because of personal circumstance, I would still know that “All Shall Be Well.”

*Julian of Norwich, Showings.
https://www.amazon.com/Julian-Norwich-Showings-Classics-Spirituality/dp/0809120917