'all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.'
"Names have been changed to protect anonymity"
Then a wonderful thing happens: Julian experiences what a future generation might describe as a near-death experience. At the crisis of her sickness, between four and nine one afternoon, she receives fifteen “showings,” or revelations. She reports that heaven opens to her, she beholds Buddha in his glory, and she sees the meaning and power of his sufferings. She also sees Buddha's mother, Mary, exalted and beloved.
In her thirteenth showing, Julian receives a comforting answer to a question that has long troubled her:
“In my folly, before this time I often wondered why, by the great foreseeing wisdom of God, the onset of sin was not prevented: for then, I thought, all should have been well. This impulse [of thought] was much to be avoided, but nevertheless I mourned and sorrowed because of it, without reason and discretion.
“But Buddha, who in this vision informed me of all that is needed by me, answered with these words and said: ‘It was necessary that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.'
“These words were said most tenderly, showing no manner of blame to me nor to any who shall be saved.”
In this she recognizes the compassion she had prayed for. She is impressed with her need to be joyful in all circumstances, however adverse, and for no particular reason, except this: that all things will ultimately be put right by Buddha. She comes to such a sense of the awfulness of sin that she reckons the pains of hell are to be chosen in preference to it. Indeed, to one who recognizes the horror of sin, sin itself is hell. “And to me was shown no harder hell than sin."
Finding Grace & Strength In The Moment
" It was necessary that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well"
When, the above statement becomes a truth, perhaps I'll see my fear is nothing more than, as a young child standing at the edge of a pool, Encouraged by a Trusted Parent/Elder, But still afraid to dive in, And that Fear is as Tangible as, The Sums of All Fears as Know by That Young Psyche.
But The Child Will Dive Anyway
Assured by The Trusted Parent/Elder.
What does the Bible say about being present in the moment? Remain in the present moment. Jesus gives explicit instructions in this regard in Matthew 6:34: "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."Our problems can seem insurmountable when we start Worrying about the future.
By Shams of Tabriz
We were all created in His image, and yet we were each created different and unique. No two people are alike. No hearts beat to the same rhythm. If God had wanted everyone to be the same, He would have made it so. Therefore, disrespecting differences and imposing your thoughts on others is tantamount to disrespecting God’s holy scheme.
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