Life Prescriptions/ Spirit/ The Dark Season of the Soul

The dark season of the soul describes a time when you feel absolutely helpless and out of control. If there is sunlight it's just enough to painfully get you through to the next moment. I have experienced this more than once in my life.

I have memories the pain of just getting out of bed. Normally the sadness was about lost, the loosing of a love relationship, a breaking of the heart. When the heart breaks you just kind of numb out until the pain subside. Of course praying helps tremendously, but during the separation of a person you love it feels a lot like loosing a limb. I'm not exaggerating, the ache of those of us who have been through knows that it can feel unbearable.

All losses can be pretty traumatic; the lost of a job, finances, relationships are all significant. But the kind of sadness I'm talking about can happen when everything appears to be great, and then you are blind sided by this overwhelming feeling of a blanket of profound cloudiness and bleakness.

I have come to understand during those seasons that I'm going through tremendous changes, not just surface changes, but deep internal spiritual changes that I don't fully understand until my soul travels from dark to light.

I saw this time lapse photography of a small seed being planted into deep fertilized soil. The plant over time burst to the light as a small plant but ended up becoming a corn field. It is fascinating to watch, and more of what I am speaking about.

In the dark season's of our life our soul is crying out and only God can answer. Many times we don't understand it, or we aren't even conscious of the cry. We get so caught up and busy with our lives so we have a tendency to dismiss or try to avoid the pain. Until pow we wake up and question what the heck is going on?

What's going on is there has been a heart cry that's being answered, it's a call out, and change is coming. Sometimes it is about your health, relationships, work, life style, so many things. But now you must deal with it, because we have no control of it. We answer by submitting to the truth and if we do the other side of it is abundance as I illustrated about the corn field.

During these times I have learned how to take care of myself, by simply paying attention to what is God saying to me, I slow down, take walks, long baths, sleep, pray and call upon my great group of friends.

So don't be alarmed when this happen, just wait be open, listen and allow it to pass through until you get to the other side of a remarkable wealth of a life you so deserve.