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As awful as it is,
darkness of thespiritual stateis not an evilbut rather a grace.It is a time ofvisitation, althoughthe Divine Visitoris silent, He iscloser than ever.
Every human being
to God, will knowthat there is adimmer switchin God’s handsand that thereis a reason thatMother Teresawould write:‘If I ever becomea saint, I willsurely be oneof darkness.I will light thelight of those indarkness on earth.’(About Mother Theresa of Calcutta)
The ultimate solution
is submission to God’sauthority over you.Intellectually, you rejoicein God’s sovereignty,without which theworld would be aterrifying place.But when God’ssovereign willencroaches onyour little domainof control,you often reactwith telltaleresentment.The best responseto losses or thwartedhopes is praise:The Lord givesand the Lord takes away.Blessed be the nameof the Lord.
A value system
describes thedescent of moralityinto a well so deepas to be bottomless.Morality becomereduced to a massof value judgments.Where there oncewas God, anobjective moralitybased on anobjective realitywhose truthsare beyondtime, place,custom and politics,now there is anirreducible subjectiveopinion with no criteria fordistinguishing betweenright and wrong.
By this my Father
you bear much fruit;so you will bemy disciples.As the Father loved me,I also have loved you;abide in my love.If you keep mycommandments,you will abidein my love, justas I have keptmy Father’scommandmentsand abidein His love.(Ref. To St. John’s Gospel)
The solitude of the wilderness
But mystics are impelled to abandontheir solitude after establishing themselvesin the transcendental levels, beingunited with the source not merelyin temporary ecstasies,but in complete surrender.Abandoning the solitude thus,they resume their contact with the worldto become the mediumwhereby, life flowedout to other men and women.(Graphic: Ron DiCianni: In the Garden Artwork)