Restoration

“At times, as the work of restoration of the divine image in us proceeds under the hand of the Divine curator during… prayer, we have to have very great faith in Him and patiently let layers of muck come to the surface so that they may fall away. In spite of feelings of ambivalence, or the sense that all we are experiencing is a vast confusion of thoughts and feelings and images, more dark than light, we need to be faithful to our daily practice of… prayer.”
~M. Basil Pennington