Session 3

Chapters 18-24

1. “Creatures have a natural love for their creator.” there is solidarity in Christ’s suffering

2. Julian said to Jesus, “ You are my heaven.”

3. The inner part of self - the True self - is “one’d with God in unending bliss”

4. All our pain will be transformed into joy

5. We are on the cross w/Jesus for the conversion of our distress into delight

6. We are the crown of Christ. Love is greater than pain.

7. The passion of Jesus reminds Julian of the cheerful giver who cares only that the recipient of the gift is delighted by the gift.  Jesus pays no mind to his own suffering. He only cares about our joy and our entrance into endless bliss.

8. Again and again Julian in a poetically circular fashion returns to the conviction that Jesus’ suffering is nothing less than or other than an expression of His extraordinary love for each one of us.