Spiritual Dryness anyone?

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As you know, spiritual dryness is a little unsettling experience. You just can’t feel the presence of God and everything you do just went downhill as if God and His angels are not there to help you. Perhaps you can share how was your experience during day(s) of spiritual dryness?
 
I like most I would imagine feel this on a daily basis it doesn’t have to be a great one time event. We all face struggles and like all good children we turn to our Father and sometimes we get zip…other times we just need a hug and zip…at other times we even question if God is there at all and it can be hard, once I got angry with God as he was ignoring me, I went to mass every day and prayed the rosary everyday as a family,fasted on bread and cups of tea twice a week and read only spiritual books oh and Adoration every week.
I was scared at one point as real trouble came and God just didn’t show I was in tears crying for help and Zip nothing I got angry with him and in the end I said If I had somewhere to go I would leave you, needless to say it all worked out and we are the best of friends again … for now anyway if he ignores me again I may threaten him again, he is on thin ice!!!
 
I’ve been very lucky as we say, I’ve had a few things happen that gave me a great deal of faith in God and His existence and so if I feel a bit like that I ignore it and carry on. I know my prayers are heard and if I lose sight of Him it’s due to my mind playing tricks on me.

I prayed to God off and on all my life and I never really felt a connection until I became a Catholic just over two years ago. So I was used to a seemingly one way conversation…but it never really was.

God, Our Lord Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Our Lady and all the angels and saints are all there always regardless of our changing moods and thoughts.

(You’re looking good today @Rutherford2! 🙂)
 
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Amazing little things happen when life is more difficult (for me) drawing closer to Jesus through crisis,feeling others prayers.
Then when it is all quiet again it’s me that might put the distance I feel there ,because I’m not praying ,not talking with Jesus as much .Very grateful for the quiet times though ,all going well.
 
The tone of your last sentences makes me shake my head.

Never threaten God. He doesn’t have to do what you want. If you are feeling spiritual dryness, perhaps you ought to ask God to change the condition of your heart so that you’re more in line with His Will and not your own.
 
Yes, spiritual dryness. A step on the way to sanctity.

This is why it’s important that, in prayer, we don’t seek to ‘feel’ God or His presence. God takes away the feelings and consolations after a soul reaches a certain point in the interior life. Demons can also cause the same feelings.
 
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I believe God loves and appreciates an honest prayer from the heart more than anything else. Yes, and that includes when we have temper tantrums like toddlers and scream and yell at God. It is a way of showing that we can’t control the situation and simply don’t know what to do.

My most intimate moments with God have actually been the next morning after I have screamed at Him to get lost or go to hell. If the Creator of the Universe can’t take a temper tantrum from one created in His likeness, then He is pretty “weak”. Next action is to call a very old and vise priest…
 
Hey if God my Father gave me a wicked sense of humour, How much more is his???
 
I’m going through a little of that right now. I’m trying to continue what I have been doing and ride it out like a storm.

It’s possible it could be due to a de-centering of my life from Christ to all the craziness in the world.
It’s also possible it’s due to my laziness from wanting to do productive things and simply lounge around.

Pray for me.
 
Yep. It’s been years for me. I kind of fall into a numb obedience, going through the motions of religion and obeying rules, and then something happens that makes me want to seek Him again, but when I look there’s nothing there. I don’t know what He wants from me.
 
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Perhaps you can share how was your experience during day(s) of spiritual dryness?
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Every day, in my life, starts with “spiritual dryness”, and I recall the words of Augustine who claimed to find rest only in the Lord.

Dryness is countered with water. We are called to drink the waters of everlasting life given by our Lord Jesus.

So, with Jesus being the word, I tackle the dryness through prayerful readings of scripture; using the daily mass readings as a good starting point.

Peace and all good!
 
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when I look there’s nothing there. I don’t know what He wants from me.
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He is simply everywhere! We can overlook the obvious, the smile from a stranger, the robin at the back door, the unexpected phone call, the car that breaks down outside a garage, and that’s not even mentioning the wonders of our weather!
I’ve got into the habit of saying grace before eating and while doing so I imagine the potatoes in the field and the efforts people made to bring them from the farm to factory to shop to me, the carrots likewise, the life of the poor creature I may be about to eat, the berries in the sauce from the hedgerows. All this wonderful creation without which my plate would be empty. These are truths, we learn to take them for granted.

As for a purpose, well God gave us St Therese of Lisieux for good reason. We live our prayer to the Almighty day by day, in our worship, in our actual prayers and sacraments, in our obedience to Mother Church and in our Catholic example to others. All very important, if you don’t think you make a difference to many others just look at how a cold will spread!

We are told, “ask and it shall be given…” these are not empty promises.
 
What a beautiful way of thinking about God. thank you for sharing.
 
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