The dark night of the senses begins to move us beyond such dependency to an unconditioned relationship with God. Groeschel notes that this is often a time of great suffering: “a mysterious collection of misfortunes overtakes people at this time.”17 The biblical model here is Job, who, deprived of all affective and cognitive assurances of God’s love and care, comes to the deep experience of God that transcends such assurances. This is heavy stuff! But ultimately God must be in our life who God is, unrestricted by the narrow limits of our thought or feeling.
