Dark Night of the Soul

Gold cherry

By D G Moody

Tue, 06 Feb 2024
  • 1368 reads
15 comments
 

Hope is not hope until there

 is nothing left to hope for,

 and faith is not faith until

  any belief in God is dead,

 and love is not love until it

  is tested by its own defeat.

   Yet through such doubts 

the soul and God may meet.



© D G Moody 2024.

Certificate U
Poem
Spiritual
Spiritual

Comments

Submitted by celticman on

profound and true in our lost worlds. 

 

Submitted by D G Moody on

Thanks Jack. Sometimes doubt can lead us to truth.

 

Also, can I add my thanks editors for the golden cherries; I'm deeply honoured.

Dougie Moody

Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

It's what is left after your wring everything else out. The bare bones of humanity, laid out in a (very profound) poem.

 

Submitted by D G Moody on

Thank you Jane. I have been fortunate in living with diferent religious - Buddhist and Christian, and spent a little time with Muslim Sufi's. What has always impressed me is how similar are the experieces when seeking god or the ultimate. The 'Dark Night' can be interpreted as the period of purgation, when the soul (or self) finally abandons the ego and opens to God. 

Dougie Moody

Submitted by memphis on

There, in the darkest of the soul, is the place where the light of God reaches.

With His Hope, His Faith, His Love, The soul and God may meet,

Thanks! For the simplicity.

William E Alexander

Submitted by D G Moody on

Thank you William. And of course you have got it! It is when we feel abadnoned that the opposite can  happen, if we can only let go of our own views and opinions - God or whatever means the good for us is always waiting there in the quite of the heart.

Dougie Moody

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Looking into oneself, or abandoning it cannot give a certain way and knowledge of what is actual truth, to give faith, true hope, love.

Mystical feelings and yearnings towards the supernatural cant give any certain sound, in our ignorance and fallenness we need to have it communicated to us,  The Bible scriptures can be trusted as real revelation to help mankind if we will read carefully and prayerfully, and they show the way to faith, hope and love, through the Saviour provided, Jesus himself being called the Word of God also. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by D G Moody on

Thanks for you comments Rhiannon. With the greatest respect I don't think that you have understood what I was trying to convey, but it is always good to have a different slant on a poem.

Dougie Moody

Submitted by onemorething on

Very profound, I love its simplicity too. It's our Pick of the Day. Do share on Facebook and Twitter. 

 

Submitted by D G Moody on

Thank you so much Rachel, both for the comment and having it chosen as Pick of the Day.

Dougie Moody

Submitted by Kris on

47 words of pureness.....

Beautifulenlightenedyes

 

Submitted by D G Moody on

Thanks Kris; the poem is my attempt to convey the spiritual crisis, when the self has nowhere left to go but in surrender. In the Judaic/Christian/Islamic religions this is a surrender to God; in Buddhism it is to an ultimate reality. Being an Anglican we just bake more scones.

Dougie Moody

Submitted by Tom Brown on

Profound, you certainly have deep understanding and richness in spiritual experience:

"What is the price of experience? Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none can come to buy, and in the withered field where the farmer plows for bread in vain."

I think that's William Blake, keep well -Tom

 

Submitted by D G Moody on

William Blake - yes! Thanks Tom, and good to find someone who also appreciates that visionary. But as to being profound; alas, I have only learned what wisdom is not, and that is what is sold in the market place.

Blessings and love......Dougie

Dougie Moody

Submitted by Tom Brown on

I know the quotation from Van Morrison's a Sense of Wonder. This is only a small excerpt, he uses the whole poem. Well worthwile reading. On Blake, a favourite, The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. Ask me,

Tom Brown