Friday, March 1, 2013

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.