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Strength in Darkness: Wisdom from John of the Cross is unavailable, but you can change that!

How will I get through this? Will I ever feel God’s love again? Have you hit a roadblock in your relationship with the Lord? Prayer, once filled with insight and consolation, now feels like you are talking into a void. Events in your life that you could have walked away from at one time now settle in the pit of your stomach like dead weight. When all roads seem impassable where do you turn? John...

reflection is so delicate that usually if the soul desires or tries to experience it, it cannot do so. For, as I say, this contemplation is active while the soul is in idleness and unconcern. It is like air that escapes when one tries to grasp it in one’s hand. When spiritual persons cannot meditate, they should learn to remain in God’s presence with a loving attention and a tranquil intellect … For little by little and very soon the divine calm and peace with a wondrous, sublime knowledge of God,
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