In A Nutshell

On June 5th we enter a church season called "ordinary time " After all the drama of Christmas (the coming of Jesus in Bethlehem), Easter (the resurrection of Jesus from the dead) and Pentecost (the gift of the Holy Spirit), the days until November 30th can seem, well ordinary We live most of the year in ordinary time, but this doesn't mean that extraordinary truths aren't revealed even in the ordinary.

During the 14th century, hazelnut trees were ubiquitous around Norwich, England and people could easily gather the nuts off the ground The hazel tree was employed in many ways: in construction of homes, for fencing, and for strong and flexible bows Hazelnuts were used in cooking and to make oil "The size of a hazelnut" even became a measurement for ingredients in recipes

Julian of Norwich was thirty and a half years old in 1373 when she became deathly ill and was not expected to live During this severe illness, she received a series of visions Her first vision was of a hazelnut in her hand: something that she found so commonplace she could not imagine what this vision could mean. She was amazed that it could last, it was so small. In fact, it could have even fallen into nothing

She was given an extraordinary insight:

In this little thing I saw three properties The first is that God made it, the second is that God loves it, and the third is that God preserves it.* Imagine you have something in your hand the size of a hazelnut, something that easily fits in the palm of your hand As you hold this object in your hand, imagine...

God holding the cosmos in divine hands. God creates it, loves it, and sustains it

Anything in your life you deeply love. God creates it, loves it, and sustains it

God holding you as a hazelnut You are created by God You are loved by God. You are sustained by God.

The ordinary hazelnut revealed our extraordinary God to Julian of Norwich

To Julian, God is our clothing, who wraps and enfolds us for love, embraces us and shelters us, surrounds us for his love, which is so tender that he may never desert us.*

And that's it in a nutshell!

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