Dark Night of the Soul- Redux
I have been thinking a bit more on the Dark Night of the Soul topic I posted about here and the theme of abandonment by God. My mind was running over some of the ideas presented in the film 'The Grey' which is on Sky at the moment. Father Barron reviews the film here and gives you a good idea of the context. The film is a pretty bleak portrait of the futility of human life. We struggle against insurmountable odds and, largely regardless of what decisions we make, we are faced with a stream of difficulties, which only come to an end when we die. The Grey translates this bleak philosophy into a film about wolves hunting men who have crashed in a snowy wilderness. Fr. Robert centres on the challenge made by Neeson's character to God at the end of the film: show up and do something or you don't exist. Feeling utterly abandoned by God, he demands proof. How familiar is this challenge. It made me really quite sad watching the film, because God really has show...