A key aspect to being in relationship with God is to identify God as a friend. This is, for Julian of Norwich, the humility of God: desire for reconciliation with creation rooted in a longing for friendship.

Love characterizes prophetic humility for Julian. This love is not only a human-divine love, but a love that overflows for what Julian calls “fellow creatures.”

For Julian, perhaps taking clues from John’s Gospel, to become oned with God is to feel at home in God with others—in what she describes as God in Christ’s kindly homeliness