Suffering Towards Godliness

Lessons in Loss and Revelation

Willam Blake, “Enoch”

Consciousness had never been so painful, sleep never so sweet. My dreams became havens of respite, and even sanctuaries of reunion, because in them I found you. But these tricks of the mind at night always gave way to a trick of the heart in the morning, repeatedly thrusting me back into a waking nightmare among the living. Your sud…