We long to find ourselves gladdened by the inner music of Julian’s Gospel of Love. She knew that all the “notes” of our lives—some in the major key, some in a jarring, discordant minor—are part of a larger symphony, the “marvelous melody of endless love.” This melody is what we yearn to know in our lives, and can if we learn to listen deeply enough. In the marrow of our souls, we long to experience the deep, abiding grounding of this love, in and through the fiber of life and death. This love began before the beginning, and holds us—and all beings—everlastingly. Without end. It is the refrain shaped by her deep conviction that “all shall be well”—amid our failings and sorrows. Here is where our longing for wholeness finds its power, where our healing begins, and where the melody of God’s endless love “happens” in and through us.

About the Facilitator
Rev. Mark S. Burrows, Ph.D., is much sought-after as a retreat leader and speaker on spirituality and mysticism, poetry and the arts. In 2021, he founded and continues to lead a popular online program, “the Julian Circle,” that encourages participants to live into the wholistic wisdom of Julian’s “showings.” A teacher, scholar and award-winning poet and translator of German poetry, his recent books include Meister Eckhart’s Book of Darkness and Light and You Are the Future: Living the Questions with Rainer Maria Rilke (2024). A member of the Iona Community, he lives and writes in Camden, ME. Visit his website at www.soul-in-sight.org.