When we have made ourselves fully available to our neighbor and to God, becoming emptied in the process, then at last we begin to live.
~ from HAPPINESS THAT LASTS by Martin Israel
If you are in the dark, it does not mean that you have failed and that you have taken some terrible misstep. For many years I thought my questions and my doubt and my sense of God's absence were all signs of my lack of faith, but now I know this is the way the life of the spirit goes.