Daily Reading for May 7
For the sake of love let us all pray
together with God’s working—
thanking,
trusting,
rejoicing,
for thus would our good Lord be prayed to
(as is the understanding that I received in all His own meaning, and in the sweet words where He says most merrily, “I am the basis of thy praying”).
Truly I saw and understood in our Lord’s meaning that He showed it because He wished to have it known more than it is,
and in this knowledge He will give us grace to love Him
and cleave to Him.
For He beholds His heavenly treasure with such great love on earth
that He wills to give us more light and solace in heavenly joy by
drawing our hearts from the sorrow and darkness
which we are in.
From A Lesson of Love: The Revelations of Julian of Norwich, edited and translated for devotional use by Father John-Julian, OJN (Walker and Company, 1988).