All is Well

I hold our soft newborn close,

Perfect and complete,

Mysteriously part of me

And yet also utterly herself,

Created in and by love

For God’s eternal pleasure.

She is of us and with us,

And yet her tiny frame radiates

A unique, cherubic beauty,

Her presence quietly proclaiming

The message of an historic mystic:

“All is well.”*

I marvel at her fresh new existence,

And consider one distant future day

When she may hold her own grandbaby

And wonder at the wholeness in her arms.

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*”All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.” 

  - Julian of Norwich  

(“Julian’s spirituality is filled with hope and confidence in the God ‘who loves us and delights in us,’ the God who ‘will make all things well,’ the God who created us to live fully the life we have been given.” – Patrick Comerford)