In a recent Time article, Barbara Brown Taylor, an Episcopalian priest, was asked how one might find God in times of depression, fear, and high anxiety (a darkness in one's soul). Taylor, a person who left the ministry in her own dark night of the soul, knows only too well that the fear of darkness can also be a time of God's nearness. She comments that darkness should not be feared because God comes to many Biblical characters in the darkness, including Jacob, the Israelites, and Nicodemus. And yet, in this world of light, people fixate on the goodness of light (and "enlightenment") over and against darkness. In darkness, Taylor argues, we learn faster than in light. We also experience God in ways that would not be possible in light. Have you ever experienced God in the dark? What reassurances do you get when you face the dark night of the soul?
The article comes from the Times article dated April 28, 2014 entitled "Let There Be Light", pages 36-41.
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