Thought for the Week by Canon Michael Storey: All shall be well

She recovered and spent the next 20 years writing down the visions.

This was the first book written in English by a woman.

The basis of her writings was that all which really matters is love - "Know it well," she wrote. "Love was God's meaning", "Hold on to this".

The most famous of her writings, based on the importance of love, are on a tapestry, hanging in St Paul's Cathedral in London: "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well."

She lived as a hermit attached to a church in Norwich, dedicated to St Julian - her writings have taken his name.

Quite interesting that this lady is remembered just now, as we are remembering the 80th anniversary of WW2.

If one links WW2 with the various wars taking place today - Gaza/Israel, Ukraine/Russia, Sudan, Myanmar, there is the great need NOW for all combatants to re-learn that, in the end, there will have to be large elements of love brought into all the talks, so that "All shall be well"!