{"id":593,"date":"2016-03-30T17:22:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T06:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annerouen.com\/blogspot\/?p=593"},"modified":"2016-03-30T17:29:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T06:29:28","slug":"hidden-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annerouen.com\/blogspot\/hidden-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My life had been turned upside down. I found it difficult to function. This morning, everything had gone wrong and I hadn’t even dressed for work. I rushed to the dressing table I had inherited from my grandmother.<\/p>\n

Stressed, I pulled on a drawer too hard and it fell out upside down, emptying its contents onto the carpet. This was the last straw and I burst into tears.<\/p>\n

Then, I stopped. Folded many times and tucked between the bottom and the back of the drawer, only visible from this angle, was a tiny, yellowed scrap of paper torn from an exercise book.<\/p>\n

I prised it out and opened it. In my late grandmother’s handwriting was a message from beyond the grave. Stunned, I read these beautiful words:<\/p>\n

In the dark night of the soul,<\/p>\n

Bright flows the river of God.<\/p>\n

A message reaching out to me in perhaps my darkest hour. I dried my tears, put the drawer back and made it to work on time.<\/p>\n

I have never forgotten this beautiful message and say it to myself whenever things are grim. I often think of my grandmother and what may have inspired her to write this verse on a scrap of paper and tuck it in the back of a drawer where I would find it decades later. Yet it was only recently that I thought to wonder where she had found these glorious, inspirational and healing words.<\/p>\n

This was how I discovered the heart-rending story of Saint John of the Cross; his love and piety; his evil treatment at the hands of so-called men of God. Part of his story can be found here<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, when I come upon the dark things of History, it is good to remember that there are wonderful treasures there, too.<\/p>\n

Words to inspire your life: From a man who should know!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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