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Thomas Aquinas reminds us that beauty and harmony go together and that God is praised as “wise and beautiful” because all beings “are full of
People who have been abused and undergone trauma often need to work hard to rediscover the goodness of existence. One person I know was contemplating
Human survival today requires the survival of the rich biodiversity of Mother Earth. Both require that we recognize goodness with fresh eyes, grateful eyes just
We have considered how central the experience of goodness is to Julian who lived through the severest pandemic of European history. How the search for
Julian warns us that our “faulty reason” can often, and especially when times are rough, render us “too blind to comprehend the wondrous wisdom of
Julian’s first advice about surviving a pandemic is not to deny the suffering that accompanies it. No denial! But her second advice and medicine for
In discussing Julian of Norwich, who was a feminist theologian 700 years before feminism, we have necessarily come up against the topic of patriarchy and
Yesterday we considered how Julian’s teachings are contrary to bullying, which puts control before wonder and domination before co-operation and power-over before compassion or power-with.
Two Daily Meditations ago, we considered Julian’s teaching vs. bullying. We mentioned how omnipresent bullying can be—it is, alas– not restricted to children’s playgrounds or
In yesterday’s DM we meditated on Julian’s insistence to grow up and celebrate differences and diversity and to put love first. And how she recognized
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