Dark
Night of the Soul
Three sculpted figures depict the journey toward union
with the Divine. “The Dark Night of the Soul” begins with despair over a
sense of God’s absence and the loss of previous close companionship with
God. The believer searches for God and is ultimately faced with
surrendering more completely into divine love. This tearing open or
emptying is an act of trust that the true self is found through a final
sacrifice of the human identity we have constructed for ourselves. The
self that dies into God in this way is transformed and lives with a new
identity as God’s beloved. Elements of the “dark night” are found in
Christ’s journey through Gethsemane, the cross, and resurrection.
Artist: Linda Lewis
“… Jesus cried…My God, my God, why have you
forsaken me?” Matthew 27:46