I really do not know how to improve on the following passages from Richard Rohr's Daily Meditation that I get daily online. I love Richard Rohr's way of saying things. The clarity I get is incomparable not to mention the comfort from the understanding of things I do not understand. Here are the passages:
Gerald pointed out in his marvelous book, The Dark Night of the Soul, that you must be willing to endure dark periods of feeling that God isn't here, that nothing is happening, that God has given up on you. Gerald makes it very clear that if God wants to work in you, God has to do it secretly, in darkness. God can't let you know what's going on, because you're likely to get in the way! You may try to engineer the process yourself and thereby destroy it; or you may try to stop it altogether because you are afraid of the immense freedom and spaciousness God is leading you toward. [2] It's only the wise, broken ones who allow themselves to "undergo God" and to trustingly "let go and let God."
I am grateful for writers like Richard Rohr. Life is so much easier and more joyful to live especially during times of "darkness".
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