Healing
Text: John 6:51-58 One time I went on a retreat to a monastery. I was in the middle of one of those dry spells, where God seemed very far away from me (or I felt very far away from God), and I felt that my spiritual well was running dry. So it wasn’t just rest and prayer that I needed. I needed to reconnect and experience the divine as something real. I needed sustenance. And I really didn’t know what to do. So I sat with a brother and confessed my spiritual dryness and asked for help. Monks are great in situations like this - they don’t look at you in horror and ask what’s wrong with you, aren’t you areligious professional? Clearly you are failing or not cut out for this calling. No, instead, they nod sagely. They understand spiritual dryness. They understand the distressing disconnection that can happen between you and God in the midst of real life and they don’t offer up some platitude like “just trust in God and it will all work out” or a
