‘The Dark Night of the Soul’: A Poem by St. John of the Cross on Using Afflictions for Greater Spiritual Growth
We all face crippling hardships at some point in our lives. The future might seem hopeless with no way out, with everything in your life falling into disarray for extended periods of time. The 16th-century Spanish Christian mystic St. John described these periods in the Christian faith as going through “the dark night of the ...
