What Julian did

Today we celebrate our patron, a woman who did three things. St Julian consented to be confronted by God in the person of Jesus crucified, Julian consented to be in conversation with Jesus, and Julian consented to be converted by what she heard from Jesus.

In response to the ongoing invitation of God to us, I cannot think of three better things to take with us into the coming year than that we consent to God’s always and everywhere coming face to face with us in Jesus, to conversation with Jesus, and to be converted by what we hear from Jesus. Let us be such people, “for the Father seeks such as these to worship him.”