WHERE GOD GOES

When God disappears suddenly in a person’s life--called the “dark night of the soul” in Christianity--it is because the person has slid into one of three changes of view.

Atheism is the absence of belief in God.

Agnosticism is the view that the existence of God or the supernatural is unknown.

Apatheism neither accepts nor rejects the existence of God, deeming it irrelevant.

What has happened to the person is that his thinking mind has intervened, has switched tracks like a train is rerouted, sending it in a different direction.  The thinking mind, though, is not where God is.

Returning a person to his faith takes time, since the thinking mind is persuasive, persistent in its argument against God.  Mother Teresa admitted to having a loss of faith that lasted for decades.

But a person who has known God will always know God, whether they are cognizant of it or not.  God is in the heart, which Mother Teresa rediscovered prompting her return to faith.