"The Spirit showed me a tiny thing, the size of a hazelnut," wrote the fourteenth-century mystic, Julian of Norwich. In Julian's vision, the fragile and insignificant hazelnut contains all of Creation-and yet it endures "because God loves it."
Seven hundred years before Rob Bell wrote
Love Wins
, Julian had already offered the world a vision of God's all-encompassing love. These prayer-poems, based on
All Shall Be Well: A Modern-Language Version of the Revelation of Julian of Norwich
, are an accessible introduction to Julian's joyous theology of love.
"Take this book from my heart to yours," she wrote. "If you forget all the rest, remember this:
Love is everything. Love is God.
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