Three Approaches to Prayer When the Dry Times Come

Spiritual Aridity Requires Patience and Perseverance — and More

St. Catherine’s, one of the oldest Christian monasteries, is in the Sinai desert where monks have prayed for some1500 years.

A friend of mine posed the following question recently on Facebook:

You may have written about this before but how about dry times in prayer? What to do? Does it really mean anything? Can we have an impact on it or do we patiently wait it out?

The fancy term here is “aridity.” I suspect anyone who has attem...