I just finished When the Well Runs Dry: Prayer Beyond the Beginnings by Thomas Green. It felt like a St. John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila for dummies kind of book. He takes the parts of their writings and relates it to our spiritual lives today. He articulates the "dark night of the soul" in a way that made me say, starkly and dumbfoundedly, "that's me." He also writes about the cloud of unknowing, which was written by an Englishman from the 14th century. I created the art above before I had read that chapter, but I think it captures some of what he was talking about. God is both blessing and confusion, a cloud of unknowing. How do we pray to such a God? I thought you could wrestle with me over that question. And I hope the art invites you into that cloud of unknowing.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
the cloud of unknowing
I just finished When the Well Runs Dry: Prayer Beyond the Beginnings by Thomas Green. It felt like a St. John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila for dummies kind of book. He takes the parts of their writings and relates it to our spiritual lives today. He articulates the "dark night of the soul" in a way that made me say, starkly and dumbfoundedly, "that's me." He also writes about the cloud of unknowing, which was written by an Englishman from the 14th century. I created the art above before I had read that chapter, but I think it captures some of what he was talking about. God is both blessing and confusion, a cloud of unknowing. How do we pray to such a God? I thought you could wrestle with me over that question. And I hope the art invites you into that cloud of unknowing.
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