In my last reflection I mentioned Julian of Norwich. Julian wrote a book which has taken an amazing 700 year journey. It seems that there are no original versions of Revelations Of Divine Love in existence, as far as we know. Might be worth checking your cupboards!
Amongst the copies that have surfaced two were in the personal collection of physician, Sir Hans Sloane. On his death in 1753 he left the British government first refusal on his vast library and collection of papers. Accepting the offer meant they needed a place and mechanism to house Sloane’s bequest, that brought into being what is now the British Library.
Julian has left us a book which reveals not just her personal thoughts and experience of God but of her positive view of humanity. She is described by some as a mystic, which is shorthand for ‘doesn’t fit a specific box’. She was a spiritual woman with buckets of wisdom and against all the odds Julian produced a book which we can buy and read 700 years later – that’s amazing.
This morning I read in Julian’s book, “Between God and the soul there is no between.” I don’t know about you but this past year I’ve had loads of time to think about what’s between me and doing things, meeting friends and visiting family. I have spent these days in my garage, converted to an office, where I have prayed, written and read. Much of my thought has been honing in on the idea that to pause from those things that distract me is to create a space. In that space I discover, as Julian describes, that there is no gap between God and the soul.
I wonder if you can create a space between you and everything else, and there discover your soul’s connection with God?
Rob Wykes 