Dryness

That woman is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of her feelings and desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, “Thou art my refuge.” ―C.S. Lewis

Artwork:
Galli, G.A.  (1625-1635). Saint Mary Magdalen. [Oil on canvas]. Retrieved from The Walters Art Museum.