August 4

I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

NOTWITHSTANDING our simple living and our blindness here, yet endlessly our courteous Lord beholdeth us in this working, rejoicing; and of all things we may please Him best wisely and truly to believe, and to enjoy with Him and in Him. For verily as we shall be in the bliss of God without end, Him praising and thanking, so verily we have been in the foresight of God, loved and known in His endless purpose from without beginning. In which unbegun love He made us; and in the same love He keepeth us, and never suffereth us to be hurt in manner by which our bliss might be lost. And therefore, when the Doom is given and we be all brought up above, then shall we clearly see in God the secret things which be now hid to us.

Then shall none of us be stirred to say in any wise: Lord, if it had been thus, then it had been full well; but we shall say all with one voice: Lord, blessed mayst thou be, for it is thus: it is well.

JULIAN THE AN- CHORESS

IT IS WELL