Today’s sermon speaks of a term used for a profound sense of spiritual desolation or detachment from God. The Dark Night of the Soul as coined first by St. John of the Cross, is a time of instense struggle where God may seem silent or distant and in 1 Thessalonians 5, we are reminded that we are “not of the darkness and it should not overtake us.” Rather, it is in the darkest of nights we can turn to Christ and ask Him to strengthen you as you walk through this difficult season because God will never leave you alone, even in the Dark Night of the Soul.