Job’s story resonates when you’re going through separation. Lost everything, sitting in ashes, friends telling him to curse God and die - that’s how this dark night of the soul feels. But Job never lost his connection to the divine, even in the pit. Same as us trusting the process when we’re going through it.
I keep reading Psalms 42, ‘Deep calls unto deep’, because David understood this soul-crushing yearning. The wilderness periods in scripture aren’t just metaphors anymore. Moses spent 40 years in exile before his calling, Joseph was betrayed and imprisoned before reunion with his brothers.
Maybe we need these desert experiences to burn away everything that isn’t divine love.