To the dull mind nature is leaden. To the illumined mind
the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are in the dark, it does not mean that you have failed and that you have taken some terrible misstep. For many years I thought my questions and my doubt and my sense of God's absence were all signs of my lack of faith, but now I know this is the way the life of the spirit goes.