Comic 746 -- A Crisis of Faith

Keeping the faith isn't always easy...

... especially given everything Gail has been through lately.

The term "dark night of the soul" gets used somewhat ubiquitously these days to mean a rough patch of any sort, but the original meaning was more specific. It was first coined by the Christian mystic San Juan de la Cruz (Saint John of the Cross) in the poetry he wrote while imprisoned by the church for heresy. The meaning is a time of spiritual desolation, when all faith goes away, and the sense of God's presence that the mystic so long has found solace in disappears.

Gail's been due for one of these for a while. And there's no rule saying you only have to experience one dark night...