I thought you might be into music.
(maybe you teach music!)
It's not due to distraction. I think about God all the time.
He just doesn't talk to me as much as He used to.
I've learned that you just take God wherever you go...no need to "get back" to Him. Our whole life could be a prayer when we live for Him.
In Catholicism this is called The Darkness of the Soul.
But they don't know why it happens either...but they say it's nothing to worry about...it just happens. I guess it happens to Protestants too!
Ah...a catholic man, long gone now, called this the dark night of the soul. A few of you who who have said in here that God doesn't speak to you as often as He used to might like the book and get some insight into what you are experiencing. His name is St John of the Cross and the book is actually titled Dark Night of the Soul.
I see these times where He seems to have gone silent as the true fast in spirit. Not like a fast in the temporal, but a fast that God puts you on, where He removes your bread and water for a time.
St John explains them as times when God is working in you much more than before but you can't see any of it and it just appears to you as a darkness. He says you are actually, during these times, being assailed by even greater light than you previously were but that it is as if when your physical eyes take in bright sun, it temporarily blinds you, even though it seems that greater light would just make it even easier to see, it has the opposite effect because your eyes are too weak to take in that much light.
Different men have explained it different ways and one man's explanation may confuse you whereas it may click for you with a different man's explanation, but they just speak of the same thing in spirit with different examples. Hard to put a spiritual experience to words.
But calm trust at all times is what will advance a man quicker in one of these fasts in spirit, or dark nights. I panicked the first few times.
