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When spiritual dryness feels like abandonment

My spiritual director told me to embrace the dark night of the soul but I just want to feel connected to something sacred again and I do not know how long I can wait.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The experience of feeling spiritually abandoned can test whether faith can survive the absence of felt connection to the divine.

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