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Dark Night of the Soul, part 2
(Part one) Once the soul is purged of those worldly senses, and you feel emptied and hollow, that’s where God’s work truly begins. As promised, part two of Dark Night of the Soul isn’t a romp through the flowers. It’s not just a sweet night of prayer and worship. It’s pain and torment (states chapter 5). It’s confronting Continue reading
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Mount Carmel
When I visited Israel, I was warned that customs officers would pick people at random to ask them questions. I don’t know if I’m naturally suspicious-looking, but I wasn’t surprised when they called me over out of my group. The questions were pretty standard—where are you going, what are you seeing—then the officer looked at Continue reading
And they said to him, “Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”
And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD.”
—Judges 18:5–6