For Julian, faith is a trust, a rope and anchor to cling to when the storms and trials rage around us. She gave us the example earlier of combating the Fiend with truth, and faith in action seems to be a continually repetition of what we have come to believe is truth, according to God and the communion of the saints. So when our faith wavers because our eyes and senses tell us a falsehood, or our senses are led away by fiends, we’re called again and again to exercise our faith, to reach out for the rope, and use the time of trial not for blasting apart our whole existence or digging even deeper into wounds that are already aching, but to breathe into the anchor of our soul, which is God in Christ Jesus, as Julian’s visions have shown us.
This is inspired by the seventieth chapter of Julian of Norwich's long text, Revelations of Divine Love.
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