Keeping My Faith Alive in Times of Spiritual Struggle
I interact with my faith differently today than I did as a kid. Over the years, there have been many Masses after which I found…
desolation
Jesus has a very special love for you. [But] as for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see, — Listen and do not hear — the tongue moves [in prayer] but does not speak… I want you to pray for me — that I let Him have [a] free hand. — Mother Teresa (to her spiritual confidant, Rev. Michael van der Peet)
Where in your life do you feel spiritually empty? Pray to see this as a dark night of the soul that is strengthening your faith.
It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation — of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme — then rises in our mind the thought of God. — Vincent van Gogh
Fast from isolation in your own life by reaching out to someone. Pray: Invite God into a difficult situation in your life. Give $5 to…
