When Jesus prayed, He prayed most frequently in solitude. Jesus rose early in the morning — before dawn — to commune privately with His heavenly Father.
Over the last 12 years, in raw moments of prayer, Tammy Richardson has wrestled with questions like ‘Should we go somewhere else?’ and ‘Is this ground just too hard?’
From time to time, we all experience periods of deep spiritual anguish. John of the Cross (a 6th-century reformer of the Carmelite way of life) called these times the “Dark Night of the Soul.”