37. "For failing of Love on our part, therefore is all our travail" (The Thirteenth Revelation - That our Lord God wills we have great regard t...) (Revelations of Divine Love) (Julian of Norwich)

GOD brought to my mind that I should sin. And for pleasance that I had in beholding of Him, I attended not readily to that showing; and our Lord full mercifully abode, and gave me grace to attend. And this showing I took singularly to myself; but by all the gracious comfort that follows, as ye shall see, I was learned to take it for all my fellow-Christians: all in general and nothing in special: though our Lord showed me that I should sin, by me alone is understood all.

And therein I conceived a soft dread. And to this our Lord answered: I keep you most surely. This word was said with more love and secureness and spiritual keeping than I can or may tell. For as it was shown that [I] should sin, right so was the comfort showed: secureness and keeping for all my fellow-Christians.

What may make me more to love my fellow-Christians than to see in God that He loves all that shall be saved as it were all one soul?

For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall. Right as there is a beastly will in the lower part that may will no good, right so there is a Godly Will in the higher part, which will is so good that it may never will evil, but ever good. And therefore we are that which He loves and endlessly we do that which Him pleases.

This showed our Lord in [showing] the wholeness of love that we stand in, in His sight: yea, that He loves us now as well while we are here, as He shall do while we are there before His blessed face. But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.