Take a moment to meditate on the astounding reality of the Incarnation of the Son of God as you listen to this beautiful song by Michael W. Smith “All Is Well”:
The phrase “All Is Well” hearkens to Julian of Norwich’s vision of Christ’s assurance that “All Shall Be Well” in answer to her question, “Why did not God prevent sin, for then all would be well?”
From Revelations of Divine Love:
“There be deeds evil done in our sight, and so great harms taken, that it seemeth to us that it were impossible that ever it should come to good end. That Great Deed ordained . . . by which our Lord God shall make all things well.
Our good Lord said: ‘All things shall be well’; and another time he said: ‘Thou shalt see thyself that all MANNER of things shall be well.’
He willeth we know that not only He taketh heed to noble things and to great, but also to little and to small, to low and to simple, to one and to other. And so meaneth He in that He saith: ‘ALL MANNER OF THINGS shall be well.’ For He willeth we know that the least thing shall not be forgotten.
For like as the blissful Trinity made all things of nothing, right so the same blessed Trinity shall make well all that is not well.”
— Julian of Norwich, (circa, AD 1342 – 1416)
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On this same theme check out this song by singer, composer, and writer Andrew Peterson entitled “All Shall Be Well”:
- We touched down on the sound
At the top of the world
In the land of the midnight sun
Where the frozen river melts away
And breaks into a run
Into the sea, into the mighty waves
That waited just to see it
From a long way off that river thawed
And the tide ran out to meet it
“Welcome home, unfrozen river, welcome home” - ‘Cause all shall be well, all shall be well
Break the chains of the gates of Hell
Still all manner of things will be well - See the quiet hearts of the children of
The children of this land
They have stayed alive in the day-long night
By the fires that warm their hands
There is a wilderness inside them
It is dark and thick and deep
And beside the fire at the heart of that wood
Is a precious missing sheep
So go on in, hold your torch, let it shine - ‘Cause all shall be well, all shall be well
Break the chains of the gates of Hell
Still all manner of things will be well
All shall be well, all shall be well
The Word of God will never fail
And all manner of things will be well - There’s a light in the darkness
There’s an end to the night - I saw the sun go down on a frozen ocean
As the man in the moon was rising
And he rode the night all full and bright
With his face at the far horizon
And the night can be so long, so long
You think you’ll never get up again
But listen now, it’s a mighty cloud of
Witnesses around you—they say
“Hold on, just hold on
Hold on to the end
And all shall be well” —Andrew Peterson
It appears that we gravitate to this Storyline of Ultimate Restoration and “all things new.” The hope of Shalom is clearly written on our hearts and seeps out through the cracks of our souls and is celebrated through the avenue of music. It seems we can sing of a truth we cannot yet speak!
