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All Will Be Well
Hymn composed by
Meg BarnhouseContextual information
Based on a long-standing tussle between Julian of Norwich and me, this song is an expansion of the first essay in my meditation manual, Rock of Ages at the Taj Mahal. Driving my small children to school one morning, the phrase “do you not know, do you not know” kept running through my head, and the rest of the song eventually came with that. I am so glad and grateful that it has been useful and a joy to my Unitarian Universalist community.
Based on a long-standing tussle between Julian of Norwich and me, this song is an expansion of the first essay in my meditation manual, Rock of Ages at the Taj Mahal. Driving my small children to school one morning, the phrase “do you not know, do you not know” kept running through my head, and the rest of the song eventually came with that. I am so glad and grateful that it has been useful and a joy to my Unitarian Universalist community.
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[All Will Be Well]
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Song Composer
Meg BarnhouseHymn Arranger
Composer Background information
Rev. Meg Barnhouse (she/her) writes: “Being a pastoral counselor and a parish minister has been right livelihood my whole adult life, starting when I was 23 as a Presbyterian minister and transferring my ordination to Unitarian Universalist in my late 30s. Retired from being the settled minister at First UU in Austin, I live happily in Bryan/College Station, TX where my wise and beautiful wife Kiya Heartwood is the minister at the UU church here.”
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Lyricist Background information
Rev. Meg Barnhouse (she/her) writes: “Being a pastoral counselor and a parish minister has been right livelihood my whole adult life, starting when I was 23 as a Presbyterian minister and transferring my ordination to Unitarian Universalist in my late 30s. Retired from being the settled minister at First UU in Austin, I live happily in Bryan/College Station, TX where my wise and beautiful wife Kiya Heartwood is the minister at the UU church here.”
Arranger Background information
Rev. Kiya Heartwood (she/they) is a UU Parish Minister / Singer Songwriter/ Composer/ Arranger. She is the Minister for the UU Church of the Brazos Valley in Bryan, TX, and the director of the Love and Joy Gospel Choir.
Lyrics
Oh Julian, you are holy. You are holding my hand
And Julian, you are holy. You are holding my hand.
And all will be well and all will be well.
All manner of things will be well.
Oh Julian, do you not know, do you not know about sorrow?
And Julian, do you not know, do you not know about pain?
And Julian, do you not know, do you not know ’bout hunger?
Julian, do you not know, do you not know ’bout shame?
She said, “All will be well and all will be well.
All manner of things will be well.”
Oh Julian, do you not know, do you not know ’bout loneliness?
And Julian, do you not know, do you not know about disease?
And Julian, do you not know, do you not know ’bout cruelty?
Oh, Julian, it’s too much, it brought me to my knees.
She said, “All will be well and all will be well.
All manner of things will be well.”
She said, “No one does not know, does not know ’bout sorrow.
No one does not know, does not know ’bout pain.”
She said, “No one does not know, does not know ’bout hunger.
No one does not know, does not know about shame.”
She said, “All will be well and all will be well.
All manner of things will be well.”
She said, “No one does not know, does not know ’bout loneliness,
And no one does not know, does not know about disease.”
She said, “No one does not know, does not know ’bout cruelty,
And I know it’s too much. It brought me to my knees,
Where I heard ‘All will be well and all will be well.
All manner of things will be well.’”
She said, “Baby girl, do you not know, do you not know ’bout tenderness,
And baby girl, do you not know, do you not know about friends?”
She said, “Baby girl, do you not know, do you not know about the spirit?
Oh, baby girl, do you not know it’s only love that never ends.”
And so all will be well and all will be well.
All manner of things will be well.
And so all will be well and all will be well.
All manner of things will be well.
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