Spiritual Journey Part VI: The Rediscovered Fun

Hello again, faithful readers!

Last time I was pretty down in the dumps with a lot of things going on in my life. This morning as I write, I reflect that the darkness doesn't have to last forever. Darkness falls but the light comes again. The past few days, I have enjoyed a break from heavier duty and have been able to do some fun things that I like. I've made three kinds of bread and loved every minute of it! For those of you who know me on other websites, you'll know that I love to bake. So yesterday, I made one of the things that was on my "drop in the bucket" list. I made challah bread. Challah, pronounced Hall-uh, is an egg bread traditionally made for the Jewish Shabbat or Sabbath if memory serves. I've always wanted to make it and yesterday, the weather where I lived was perfect for proofing the bread dough or helping it to rise. I did it successfully the first time I made it!

I think what we all need occasionally is time to just breathe. I'm out of the dark night for now.

Spiritual Journey V: Dark Night of the Soul

Hello again, dear readers.  This next topic deals with what is referred to as "the dark night of the soul." While I wish I had a Dark Knight of the soul, I think I am dealing with the first mentioned. Why am I bringing this up now? I believe I'm going through it in some form. It may be different than how others go through it, but I think I'm going through it. Rather than catalog the crud I'm dealing with, I'll just say that there are times I see God as fairly impersonal rather than the Being we can bring our problems to quite easily as I learned about in church and in the Seventh-day Adventist school I attended.
Am I a weak Christian for feeling this way? That I feel like God has abandoned me sometimes? I don't think so. In fact, I think questioning why you're being dumped on is okay. I think that was the whole point of the book of Job.