Holy Darkness – Christine Valters Paintner

“[The] holy darkness through which God helps us to release attachments and idolatries…. is not meant to imply that God somehow ‘gives’ us our suffering to then free us. Instead as human beings, we will experience suffering, and through grace we can encounter God’s presence there with us guiding us and helping to give our suffering meaning.”

— Christine Valters Paintner, PhD,  The Online Self-Study Retreat ~ A Midwinter God: Making a Conscious Underworld Journey