Category: Dark Night

  • Sometimes It Just Is

    I’d like to say I’m a wise sage who can guide you through this. That I know how to reach the other side, but the truth is sometimes it just is for me, and I find myself as helpless as the first day I fought against the darkness. The overwhelm is crushing. I feel like…

  • The Night Persistent

    The Night Persistent

    Most books I have read, talks I have heard, conversations I have participated in, have emphasized the transient nature of suffering. We persist because there will be a better day or so I am told. St. John of the Cross who originated the phrase Dark Night of the Soul portrays this suffering as a dark…