Dark Night of the Soul

Sooner or later a shadow will slide across the sun and our world goes into eclipse. It might be something that we neither had wished nor planned for, but it happens. We wait in this new darkness in which we find ourselves, perhaps wondering if we have been the cause of the loss of light, whether if we had done things differently it never would have happened. But sometimes it just happens, and we must wait, patient and accepting, for the sun to return. In time the alchemy of darkness which all the while has been at work inside us will allow us to emerge transformed. Darkness as much as light can be a powerful medium for transformation if we allow it to be: if, instead of resisting, we make it our ally and give it the time and the space to do its work.