A doxology in darkness

Posted on March 11, 2014 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

To be grateful for an unanswered prayer, to give thanks in a state of interior desolation, to trust in the love of God in the face of the marvels, cruel circumstances, obscenities, and commonplaces of life is to whisper a doxology in darkness.

-Brennan Manning

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