You may feel you are down to nothing in one or more areas of life. And if you're reading these words, you've apparently lived to tell about it. If you have a pulse, you've seen trouble. We are 'born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward' the book of Job tells us (5:7).

I won't insult you by saying, ' If you've been through something similar…' because I know you have. What happened to me is what has happened to millions of other people: the loss of a job, the death of a dream, the confusion about what to do next, the questioning of one's value, the questioning of God, and all the rest. It's about God and what He does when we are in the dark corners of life. This book is not about me and what I experienced. And the four months of darkness that followed were like a school in which I discovered that when we are down to nothing, God is always up to something. It was like an eclipse-something that occurs in a matter of minutes with little or no warning. My sun set, and the dark night began, in July and lasted through October of 2008. My own dark night began in July 2008 when my superiors-specifically, my parents and other extended family members involved in leading 'the family business,' decided I was not the right person to continue in the positions they had asked me to fill two and a half years earlier: Senior Pastor of the Crystal Cathedral church and pastoral host of the international Hour of Power television broadcast. In short, trouble teaches us that God is always up to something in our life. My dark night of the soul can in no way be compared to his except in this way: Trouble is life's wisest teacher suffering is the schoolmaster that leads us to humble submission trials are the tutor that explains the difference between life as we would like it and life as we are given it-and how the latter is the gateway to a deeper knowledge of God. John used his own strained relationship with his superiors to write of the journey of the soul through the difficult darkness of trouble in this life-as do I. While I in no way compare myself to Saint John of the Cross in spirituality, in insights, in suffering, or in contribution to Christendom, the title of his classic poem serves me well as I introduce this book-as do the circumstances under which he wrote. Dying before he reached the age of fifty, his writings have been a comfort to many who have endured their own 'dark night of the soul.'

Because of his work as a reformer, John was arrested by his superiors, imprisoned, and tortured before he escaped nine months later. Today he is perhaps best remembered for his classic work Dark Night of the Soul ( La noche oscura del alma), a poem that describes the trials and suffering the soul goes through in this life. Trivia: The woman in the song is former Brazilian model and actress Giselli Monteiro, who later quit acting to pursue studies in architecture.Saint John of the Cross (Juan de Yepes Álvarez) was a sixteenth-century Spanish friar-a member of the Roman Catholic Carmelite order. God, you couldn't manage to do even this much for me What kind of God are you, you are just for name sake

I didn't ask the entire Paradise from you! What I asked for is rightfully mine, what do you lose? But, listing only the scolding ones here. : ) Each line in the song is the kind that never becomes stale. It always reminds me of a little child talking with him mom about a snack he wants or to go out and play before doing homework. The song has the singer praising, acknowledging, scolding and negotiating with God. My second most favorite in this category is Aaj Din Chadheya from 2009's Love Aaj Kal.Īll have done their part to create a memorable song: Music Direction Pritam, Lyricist Irshad Kamil and of course Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.

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