Who is she and what did she stand for alot. For example I have just complete reading “Book of Shadows”[God The Mother] and I can truly say that I have never been so confused about a book before, but after the 4 reading things started to come into shape. I understand the story and the meaning and I do agree with her analogy of God being the Mother “As truly as God is our father, so truly is God our mother.” It seems only right that the creator of all should be both the father and the mother. For without God’s nurturing there would be no existence, how would we have grown in the beginning of time. Thought the story, Julian of Norwich made numerous references to the similarity of God and a mother. I dare say that all of these things made sense to me for example “The mother can give her child to suck of her milk, but our precious Mother Jesus can feed us with himself….” I understood this line to mean that just as a child need it is mother’s breast milk to survive and grow, we need our Mother Jesus to lead us to our source of nourishment to survive and grow. I feel that Julian of Norwich was trying to convey that just as we our born to our mothers, we are also born to Christ. We all carry part of Christ with and in us everyday. After reading this story, I felt that I had truly learned something great. It gave me a new way to view God. ...
