This is the anniversary of the day in 1373 when an English mystic, Julian of Norwich, was said to have been healed of a serious medical condition after experiencing a series of religious visions. In response she started writing, and produced the influential treatise “Revelations of Divine Love.”

A religious order was founded in her name. You can visit them in Waukesha, Wisconsin of all places. But this is no summer getaway to the Dells – the schedule is rather severe.

I’m not inclined to believe stories of miraculous healing, especially when the recovery was supposedly a favor granted in response to an extra measure of religious devotion. But it is encouraging to think that a sudden, positive change is possible, especially when a severe illness is diagnosed.

This experience of having multiple visions apparently took Julian to a sunny place, theologically – away from a vision of a wrathful God to one more interested in peace and love, leading to the writing of these famous lines: “Sin is inevitable, but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”

Which led, in turn, to the writing of this song by Sydney Carter – one I know from the work of Ann Mayo Muir, Gordon Bok and Ed Trickett, but done here by a German group called the Ohrwurm Folk Orchestra. (Ohrwurm is the German word translated as “ear worm”, which describes to perfection the kind of song that gets into your head and becomes impossible to remove).

Name a song that comforts you in times of trouble.