Dry Patch

When you might walk through a field or area that has green, healthy grass, you might come across a dry patch.  You are standing in it and have not the foggiest notion why this patch is dry, surrounded by green grass.  Prayer is like that. We sometimes end up in a dry patch and we don’t know why.  We think maybe we have done something wrong.  It is our fault that the patch is dry.  But maybe it is just a dry patch and we move on.  A spiritual way is a moving on.  There are days or moments of prayer when we are in a dry patch. If you keep to your practice, it is not your fault.  It is just part of the journey through the fields of deepening growth.  We all have spiritual dry patches.  You are not in a wrong place, but just a place.  No blame.  Just trudge along.  Some days you will be like Julie Andrews singing and dancing in a green mountain field, as in what movie?  This is a test.