I just wrote this song over the past couple of days. I’m pretty sure I stole the chords and the melody from another song in the podcast. Oops. I was looking for some hope in these days and a friend mentioned Julian of Norwich, so of course I went back to her glorious visions and remembered “all will be well, all will be well, all will be well.” Now she survived the plague, so she saw some stuff. This wasn’t a light statement for her. Somehow she held all the trouble and the pain alongside joy and hope. She moved through the suffering to the heart of God. She wasn’t avoiding the reality of her days — I feel like she dove down into it with abandon and there she found freedom and connection. She found a love that held all these these things together. So I just started singing those words, all will be well, over and over again and it helped it start to sink down in my soul. Eventually this song happened. Here’s all will be well.
Here's a blessing to take with you:
As you go,
may the uncertainty of these days
not weigh you down
or leave you in despair.
May the seedling possibilities
before you not entangle you
or leave you in fear of choosing
this way or that,
but may you find a lightness
as you release the outcomes
and the final form of the future
and embrace the holy Now.
May grace rise up
as you see again
an economy of love,
not fettered to this dust,
that shares each moment’s grace
with abandon.