The first half of life is about “light” (order, meaning, clarity, explanations). The second half of life is where God leads you into “darkness,” which is actually a much better teacher than what seemed like light. Now you learn through waiting, trusting, praying, and “through a glass darkly” (1 Corinthians 13:12).
God has to work on your soul “in secret,” according to the saints and mystics. If God gave you any idea of what God was doing, which is always radical surgery, you would do one of two things: you would try to stop it, or you would try to engineer it and take control of the process. God has to operate in darkness to get the job done.
It is sort of humiliating, isn’t it? Yet it is also deeply consoling, because even on your seemingly empty and unexciting days, even then, you can trust that God is working in you, with you, and for you.
Richard Rohr
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