"All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well," Julian of Norwich (1342-1416+) In the fourteenth century, a woman named Julian was living the solitary life of an anchoress. An anchoress was a woman vowed to chastity and stability of abode. She was enclosed in a cell until her death. Her life’s purpose being contemplation and unceasing prayer focused on God. Her cell was one hundred square feet with three windows for viewing the sacrament and taking communion. There Julian lived and prayed, ate her meals and slept, worked at some simple task such as needlework, meditated on her revelations and wrote her book for the next twenty, thirty, perhaps forty years, never leaving the cell. At age 30 she was struck with severe illness, nearly dying. A priest called to her bedside to administer the last rites, held up a crucifix before her face. Suddenly, she felt all pain cease. During the illness, she received 1...