Julian echoes the story of Mary & Martha in today’s reading, affirming that “sloth and time-wasting” are vices, but that busyness is not necessarily the thing to be sought. “Inward contemplation” is even better, as far as growth in God is concerned.

This is inspired by the seventy-sixth chapter of Julian of Norwich's long text, Revelations of Divine Love.

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