10. The universe is always in God's hand, as in Dame Julian's vision of the hazelnut. It is so small in comparison to the infinite hand that there can be no danger of its falling; and so she found herself reassured that "All shall be well. And all shall be well. And all manner of thing shall be well." Still, to us, the universe is so vastly huge that a fall within it will often seem to be a fall into sheer nothingness—so death, most obviously, but even lesser falls, a fall from employment, from favor, from the hope of some particular success, from good health, from cheerfulness or hopefulness. The extraordinary thing in Dame Julian's vision is that, for a moment, she is allowed to see the universe from God's perspective.