Doubt (Psalm 77)

Pastor Dominic Jackson opens Psalm 77, often called the "dark night of the soul" psalm, to explore what happens when we look for God the way we always have and can't find him. Drawing on the story of St. John of the Cross, who wrote Dark Night of the Soul after months of imprisonment and darkness, Dominic makes the case that seasons of spiritual dryness and doubt aren't signs of failure but are often invitations to deeper faith. Like a parent weaning a child or a tide pulling back before it returns stronger, God sometimes feels distant precisely because he's leading us somewhere new. With help from Mother Teresa, C. S. Lewis, Martin Luther, Annie Dillard, and Frederick Buechner, Dominic reminds us that doubt is not the opposite of faith. It is an element of it. This is part one of a two-part look at doubt and deconstruction.