"Then with a glad cheer our Lord looked unto His Side and beheld, rejoicing. With His sweet looking He led forth the understanding of His creature by the same wound into His Side within. And then he shewed a fair, delectable place, and large enough for all mankind that shall be saved to rest in peace and in love."
Julian of Norwich (Ch. 24)
There is a place where all of humanity can find rest, can find home, can be safe in peace and love. It's within Christ Himself. He is our place of safety and warmth, our haven of quiet rest and belonging. He is wide enough and big enough and expansive enough to hold every single person in the whole human race. Noone is left out; all are included, all are embraced, enveloped in love, accepted and warmly taken in. This place of refuge, Christ, is a fair and beautiful, delightful and delectable place. He is our Eden, our Paradise, our Home. He is the love we have always wanted and the family we have always longed for. He is the acceptance, understanding, security, peace, freedom and cherishing we have dreamed of. And we are all in Christ, right now, safe in His great being of pure Love!
"I will draw everyone to Me."
John 12:32 (CEB)
"So spacious is he, so expansive, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross."
Colossians 1:19-20 (MSG)
A Prayer: Dear Jesus, I am at home in You!