Spiritual Dryness

Posted on 03/25/2010 at 15:34:16  |  Reply  |  Report Abuse |  0

Re-posted from a thread in the Spirituality section:quote:Originally posted by God4mequote:Originally posted by Diana HolbergHi folks... I have a Baptist friend who is struggling with her walk and is experiencing burnout from serving in too many ways at her church. She's more...

Posted on 04/13/2010 at 04:44:29  |  Reply  |  Report Abuse |  1

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I do the same things as the original Church, Read the Acts of the Apostles, You'll see the catholic church is nothing like the first Church.

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actually is is very much like the first church. and i'm pretty sure that all of us have read the book of acts.

Posted on 04/13/2010 at 07:31:53  |  Reply  |  Report Abuse |  0

As if no one in the Catholic Church has ever read the Book of Acts before the 1500s. What illogic.

Posted on 04/20/2010 at 05:26:14  |  Reply  |  Report Abuse |  0

I had a look at the "more" and I'm a bit confused as to whether your question concerns "burnout" or "dark night of the soul". In her case I think it's burnout, doing too much. I'm a bit the same myself, in the sense I take on too many things rather than doing what I should be doing, and doing it well.

The "dark night of the soul", as far as I can make out, is a deep spiritual dryness, a darkness, in which God seems to have disappeared altogether.

On the other hand, there are those who say this "darkness" or more accurately, "nothingness" may be God, the completely Other. It's like an endless well into which one can fall forever without touching bottom, deep, mysterious, profound, and frightening.

I'm not sure I can put it much better than that.