We are part of the earth and it is part of us. We love this earth as a newborn loves its mother's heartbeat.
~ Chief Seattle
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.