Gift in Confession

The confessor listened and counseled in the hermit's darkest hour. And then there was a gift given besides the intangible, and this is a card with a quote of Julian of Norwich.

"Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God. Of these comes a marvelous delight in God, which is love."

The hermit must ponder these words, and pray for love. Love has been smothered by the hermit's desperation to be accepted, rather than to simply accept.

Love requires accepting God's will, especially when His will makes no logical sense to the human mind and vision.

There is gratitude for this card given from the one who seemingly has the power to lift the suffocation but does not. For it is not God's will that he lift what buries the seed into the darkest soil, in order to die, and for God to bring forth new life. This is done of love.

Death is born out of great love.

The hermit's initial reaction, however, was that Julian of Norwich was an anchorite. She had her showings. She had a place in the Church.