[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Yes! Did you read the book by St.John of the Cross? I did but I thought it was a very difficult read. One of those books that you have to read a couple of pages then stop and think about it for a while. I was persistent though and finally finished it two years later!

[Judith Anne]

I didn't get through that book, you're to be commended. What happened to me was that I sort of lived through such a "night" and spent a lot of time as a retreatant at a Trappist monastery...the writings of the great mystics were at my disposal, and to my surprise, I saw my very own struggles illuminated by theirs...it didn't make it any easier, and I am certainly no great mystic, but at times, there were friends in the darkness...